Chinese Resident Under Virus Lockdown Stabs a Pandemic Control Volunteer to Death

Chinese Resident Under Virus Lockdown Stabs a Pandemic Control Volunteer to Death
A staff member keeping watch at a checkpoint in the border city of Suifenhe, in China's northeastern Heilongjiang Province on April 21, 2020. STR/AFP via Getty Images
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A pandemic control volunteer in northeastern China was stabbed to death on Feb. 3 while attempting to block a resident from leaving his apartment complex.

The volunteer, surnamed Zhang, worked as a guard at a residential community in Hulan district, Harbin city. He was stabbed multiple times after he refused to let a resident surnamed Chen leave the complex, as per lockdown rules, according to Hulan district police. Zhang was immediately rushed to a hospital, but was declared dead upon arrival.

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