drunken man went on a rampage while driving a bulldozer in northern China, smashing into shops and vehicles and killing 11 people, a government spokesman said Monday.
The incident Sunday began when Li Xianliang, 38, killed a customer Sunday at the Hongyuan coal depot in Hebei province's Yuanshi county where he worked driving a shovel loader, said a news release issued by the county government. Li, who had been drinking, then drove his machine down an adjacent road, smashing into cars, buses, motorcycles, trucks and roadside shops, the news release said. The bulldozer eventually stopped in a field where police subdued the man after the hour-long rampage.
The man likely faces the death penalty if convicted of murder.
The news release said eight people were killed outright and 20 injured, while a Yuanshi county spokesman, who refused to give his name as is common with Chinese officials, said three more had died in hospital.
Photos posted to online news websites showed blankets covering the dead, vehicles smashed or flattened after being run over, and the fronts of shops torn out by the loader's powerful shovel.
China has seen a string of apparently unrelated rampage attacks this year, often by knife-wielding assailants targeting kindergartens and elementary schools.
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