The Chongqing shooting was a

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that occurred in Chongqing, China on 5 April 1993. Chen Xuerong, a worker at the Chongqing

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, who was angered by a mistake on his

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, armed himself with a

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and searched for his boss with the intent to kill him, but upon finding that the latter was not present he shot dead three of his co-workers. Pursued by security guards, Chen escaped the factory grounds by jumping over a wall, and once out on the street fired at a family of four passing by on a motorcycle with sidecar, fatally hitting a man and two women, and wounding the fourth. He next injured a soldier in a van, and then killed another man, on whose bike he fled. At a junction Chen stopped and hijacked a taxi, after killing the driver, and injuring his passenger, and eventually killed himself by driving down a 30-meters deep ravine, about 40 minutes after firing his first shots.Worker kills 8
'' Asian Recorder'' (p. 23105).

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