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.

周四，在北京三里屯商业区，一名中国女子被一手持匕首的男人砍伤致死，她老公也被砍伤。

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".

北京警方透露，这名嫌疑人姓高，25岁，来自吉林省通化市，他在三里屯酒吧南口毫无缘由地砍伤两名被害人。

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

两名被害人被送到附近的医院，女子不幸身亡。她丈夫术后还在医院医治中。

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.

这名女子，名叫顾文清，28岁，来自山东。她有个妹妹，中国戏剧艺术学院的毕业生。据她一个没有透露姓名的朋友介绍说，顾女士以前是个模特，在北京经营一家纹身店。

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.

她丈夫，法国籍，在社交软件上名为Mariaud Romain，以前在法国驻中国大使馆工作，现在是法国外交部和国际发展部的官员。

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.

根据目击者拍摄的视频，嫌疑人在攻击迫害二人后并没有离开现场。他手持匕首在事发地逗留，警方到来时他并没有法抗。他被警方拘留，目前正在审讯调查中。

Sanlitun is known as the capital’s expatriate haven, with more than 3,000 foreigners living there.

三里屯有3000名外国友人居住，著称为首都的外国人的天堂。

Many expats were shocked by the news.

许多外籍人士听到这个消息，表示很震惊。

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."

然而，Pickatable 的北京项目经理Marck Ernest Thornton说到，“我并不为生活在北京而担忧，我还是认为相比我之前居住过的很多城市，北京还是安全很多。”

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来源:China Daily 官网爱语吧作者:Annie