Man kills seven people in Wuhan stabbing rampage and jumps off bridge, police say

Police in central China were hunting Tuesday for a man who killed seven people, including a village Communist Party chief, before jumping off a bridge, officers said. The suspect, surnamed Gao, stabbed to death a family of five, including two children, in Wuhan on Sunday, the city's police force said in a statement on its official Weibo microblog.

The suspect fatally wounded a passerby and a cab driver while trying to steal a car to escape, it added, saying he then jumped off a bridge over the Yangtze River early Monday morning.

The police did not say whether the man was thought to have survived the jump.