Police rescued a woman taken hostage by a man armed with knife in Wangfujing pedestrian street, downtown Beijing, Wednesday night.
The man accosted the woman at around 9:22 pm near the Beijing apm shopping center. Police rescued her at 9:57 pm.
Initial investigation showed the man was born in 1976, and was from south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. He did not know the woman in question.
Police are investigating.
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