CHINA-CRIME-HOSTAGE

CHINA-CRIME-HOSTAGE

This picture taken on April 8, 2014 shows a man (C) holding a woman hostage with a cleaver as a policeman (R) negotiates with him, before rescuing her after a nearly two-hour standoff in Kunming, southwest China’s Yunnan province, while the motive remains unknown. Recently, in an unrelated event, eight members of what Beijing labelled a “terrorist gang” carried out the stabbing spree at Kunming railway station in southwestern China, with four of them killed at the scene. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO