Five dead in Yunnan after stabbing frenzy

Five residents were killed and nine others were injured in an attack in Yunnan province on Friday morning, according to the local publicity authority.

The murders happened at about 7 am in Gazhong village when the 21-year-old suspect started slashing his grandfather and his mother with a knife, then ran out of the home and attacked and killed others, said Lin Yineng, a publicity official in Dehong.

The grandfather's and mother's injuries were not life threatening, but they were hospitalized.