Man kills woman in Sanlitun with sword

A Chinese woman was killed on Thursday and her French husband wounded when they were attacked by a man with a sword in Sanlitun, a commercial district in downtown Beijing.

Beijing police said the 25-year-old suspect, surnamed Gao, who is from Tonghua, Jilin province, attacked the two without provocation at the "south entrance of Sanlitun Bar Street".

They were taken to a nearby hospital, where the woman died. Her husband was still hospitalized after surgery.