Woman Killed, 12 Injured in Beijing Mall Knife Attack

Police patrol outside the Joy City Mall in the Xidan district after a knife attack, in Beijing, China, on Feb. 11, 2018. Reuters/Jason Lee

BEIJING—A woman was killed and 12 other people injured after a man carried out a knife attack in a mall in a busy shopping district in the Chinese capital, Beijing, police said on Sunday.

Beijing police said in a short statement they had detained a man over the early afternoon attack at the Joy City Mall in the Xidan district.