NANNING - A police station chief in south Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region has been arrested after shooting dead one person and wounding another while drunk, police said Friday.

Tan Ningjiang, head of a police station in the city of Laibin, was invited to a dinner in the city of Guigang on Thursday evening. At about 9:50 pm, the drunk police officer left the dinner and headed to a car, but shortly after he fired his handgun inside the car, the Guigang public security bureau said in a statement.

Several of Tan's friends fled after failing to stop him from shooting, and then Tan returned to the restaurant and fired at an individual surnamed Xie who was at the dinner table, according to the statement; he also fired at a passerby on the road surnamed Li.

Xie died later at a hospital, and Li remains under medical treatment but suffered no life-threatening wounds, the statement said.

Police are investigating.