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.
The woman, Gu Wenqing, 28, was from Shandong province. She had a younger sister. A graduate of the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, Gu used to be a model. She was running a tattoo studio in Beijing, according to a friend who declined to be identified.
Her husband, a French citizen, was identified on his LinkedIn page as Mariaud Romain, a former employee of the French embassy in Beijing and a current official at France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development.
According to a video shot by a witness, the suspect did not leave the scene after the attack. He walked around the area with the sword and didn't resist when police arrived. He was taken into police custody and is under investigation.
Sanlitun is known as the capital's expatriate haven, with more than 3,000 foreigners living there.
Many expats were shocked by the news.
However, Marck Ernest Thornton, project manager at Pickatable in Beijing, said, "I am not worried about living in Beijing, which I still think is a safer place than a lot of cities I have lived in or visited."
周四，在北京三裏屯貿易區，一位中國女子被一手持匕首的漢子砍傷致死，她老公也被砍傷。
北京警方泄漏，這名懷疑人姓高，25歲，來自吉林省通化市，他在三裏屯酒吧南口毫無啟事地砍傷兩名被害人。
兩名被害人被送到鄰近的病院，女子不幸身亡。她丈夫術後還在病院治療中。
這名女子，名叫顧文清，28歲，來自山東。她有個妹妹，中國戲劇藝術學院的卒業生。據她一個沒有泄漏姓名的同夥先容說，顧女生曩昔是個模特，在北京謀劃一家紋身店。
她丈夫，法國籍，在交際軟件上名為Mariaud Romain，曩昔在法國駐中國大使館事情，如今是法外洋交部和國際成長部的官員。
依據眼見者拍攝的視頻，懷疑人在進擊危害二人後並無分開現場。他手持匕首在事發地勾留，警方到來時他並無法抗。他被警方拘留，今朝正在審判查詢拜訪中。
三裏屯有3000名外國朋儕棲身，著稱為都城的外國人的勝地。
很多外籍人士聽到這個新聞，表現很震動。
但是，Pickatable 的北京項目司理Marck Ernest Thornton說到，“我其實不為生存在北京而擔心，我照樣以為比擬我以前棲身過的許多都會，北京照樣平安許多。”
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