Gunman killed by police after 10-hr standoff

GUANGZHOU - It was right out of a Hollywood gangster movie: A man with a home-made pistol shoots a senior police officer and holds off a well-equipped police team for 10 hours before he is shot dead.

The scene, rare in China where private gun ownership is prohibited, was played out Thursday on busy Jingxi street in Baiyun district of Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province.

A deputy police chief surnamed Chen was seriously wounded after he took a bullet in his stomach. A doctor at nearby Nanfang Hospital would only say that he suffered a "serious injury".