Man runs amok, kills five cops

SHANGHAI: A man stabbed five policemen to death and wounded five others at a police station in Shanghai's Zhabei district yesterday.

The 28-year-old suspect, surnamed Yang, first stabbed a security guard to death at the police station around 9:40 am, a Shanghai public security bureau press release said.

He then started a fire at the gate before barging into the police station and stabbing nine policemen, four of who died of their injuries, police said.