Police in Sichuan province shot dead a suspected drug addict on Sunday as he held a woman hostage on an expressway bridge.
Zhang Fuming had been in a standoff with police since Saturday evening, when he had parked his white Mercedes-Benz car on the Guangyuan-Nanchong Highway and begun shooting a handgun at passing vehicles at random.
"The suspect was in a very frantic state," Wu Changwei, police chief for Cangxi county, told China Central Television shortly after the incident. "Taking into consideration the safety of the hostage, we decided to shoot him dead."
A police statement said lengthy negotiations with Zhang failed, and that two handguns and ammunition were later found in the car, which did not have a license plate.
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