<div class="caption">This picture shows a dead body being carried away after a stabbing attack happened near a shopping mall in Beijing.</div>

<p>BEIJING - A knife-wielding man killed two people, including a woman from the United States, in an attack in China's capital, state media said on Thursday.</p>
<p>The stabbing happened outside a shopping mall in downtown Beijing on Wednesday, Xinhua news agency reported, citing local police.</p>
<p>Police detained a 27-year-old man surnamed Xiao from eastern China following the attack which was witnessed by hundreds of bystanders, the report said.</p>
<p>The suspect is unemployed and has claimed he is mentally ill, the report said. It did not give the names of the dead but said the other victim was a Chinese male.</p>
<p>China had a murder rate of 1.0 per 100,000 people in 2010, according to the United Nations, among the lowest in the world.</p>
<p>Local police said they could not immediately comment on the details of the case, when contacted Thursday.</p>

<div class="caption">This picture shows a dead body being carried away after a stabbing attack happened near a shopping mall in Beijing.</div>

<p>BEIJING - A knife-wielding man killed two people, including a woman from the United States, in an attack in China's capital, state media said on Thursday.</p>
<p>The stabbing happened outside a shopping mall in downtown Beijing on Wednesday, Xinhua news agency reported, citing local police.</p>

US woman stabbed to death in Beijing: Xinhua