Police in Wuhan hunt for murderer after local official and 6 others killed in early hours
- Xiaosi township’s acting party secretary Zhang Qihong was killed on Monday morning along with four members of his family, including two children
- District Public Security Bureau alleges 39-year-old suspect murdered two others after leaving Zhang’s home and before jumping into Yangtze River
Police are searching for the murderer of seven people, including a local official who was killed at his home, in Wuhan in central China in the early hours of Monday morning.
Xiaosi township’s acting party secretary Zhang Qihong was killed along with four members of his family, including two children.
The district’s Public Security Bureau alleges a 39-year-old resident surnamed Gao of Luohan village, in Xiaosi township, used a knife to murder the party secretary and others before fleeing Zhang’s home with an injury around 1am on October 25, according to an official announcement published on the bureau’s website.
It is alleged Zhang and his wife were killed in their living room, followed soon after by Zhang’s daughter-in-law when she carried a child aged under 12 months downstairs, according to Cover News, a local newspaper.
Two of Zhang’s grandchildren died upstairs. Police arriving at the scene found one of Zhang’s grandchildren, a seven-year-old boy, still breathing and he was admitted to hospital.