A senior city official in China on Wednesday burst into a meeting and shot the city’s mayor and secretary of the ruling Communist Party before committing suicide, in a rare case of gun violence in the country.
The incident occurred in the southwestern Chinese city of Panzhihua, Sichuan Province, local authorities said. The city’s Communist Party chief Zhang Yan and mayor li Jianqin were injured around 11 am when they were participating in a meeting at a local conference and exhibition center, Xinhua news agency reported.