Insight sought into stabbing

Shanghai - The police began judicial appraisal on Monday of the mental state of a Chinese student who stabbed his mother after flying to Shanghai from Japan.

The 25-year-old man, surnamed Wang, is accused of stabbing his mother nine times when he arrived at Pudong International Airport on April 1, just 10 minutes after his mother had picked him up. Wang was detained at the scene of the alleged crime, according to the Shanghai police.

The 52-year-old mother, surnamed Gu, survived the attack and a subsequent coma. She was transferred from an intensive care unit to a regular ward at a local hospital on Monday.