Chongqing shooting

The Chongqing shooting was a mass shooting that occurred in Chongqing, China on 5 April 1993. Chen Xuerong, a worker at the Chongqing machine factory, who was angered by a mistake on his timesheet, armed himself with a hunting rifle and searched for his boss with the intent to kill him, but upon finding that the latter was not present he shot dead three of his co-workers.

Chongqing shooting
LocationChongqing, China
Date5 April 1993
Attack type
Mass murder, mass shooting, murder-suicide, spree shooting
WeaponsHunting rifle
Deaths9 (including the perpetrator)
Injured3
PerpetratorChen Xuerong

Pursued by security guards, Chen escaped the factory grounds by jumping over a wall, and once out on the street fired at a family of four passing by on a motorcycle with sidecar, fatally hitting a man and two women, and wounding the fourth. He next injured a soldier in a van, and then killed another man, on whose bike he fled. At a junction Chen stopped and hijacked a taxi, after killing the driver, and injuring his passenger, and eventually killed himself by driving down a 30-meters deep ravine, about 40 minutes after firing his first shots.[1][2][3][4][5]

References

  1. El Mundo, El Nuevo Herald (7 April 1993).
  2. Amokläufer erschießt acht Personen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (April 7, 1993).
  3. Pris de colère, un ouvrier chinois tue huit personnes, AFP (6 April 1993).
  4. Amokläufer in China erschiesst acht Personen, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (7 April 1993).
  5. Worker kills 8, Asian Recorder (p. 23105).

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