Foreign tourists stabbed near China's Tiananmen
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BEIJING - Two foreign tourists were stabbed on Sunday in front of a hotel near Beijing's Tiananmen Square, China's Xinhua news agency reported.
The two, both women, were from Germany and Poland. They were rushed to hospital where their condition was not life-threatening, the report said.
Police had detained a suspect, a 34-year-old man from the northern province of Hebei who had arrived in Beijing earlier in the day and was "attempting to attract social attention to his personal plight by creating a disturbance" the report said.
