Police shot and killed a man who allegedly did a kidnapping in Wuhua district in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, at around 5 pm on Friday. The hostage was rescued, local police said.
22日17時許，一名男子在昆明市五華區劫持一名人質，被警方當場擊斃，人質被安全解救。
The man, surnamed Wang, 56, axed seven people outside the gate of a middle school before the kidnapping. One of the people attacked died of their injuries.
經查，涉案嫌疑人姓王（男，56歲），其劫持人質前，在雲南師範大學附屬實驗中學門口持刀致傷7人，其中1人經搶救無效死亡。
一名女性上前給人質和嫌犯遞飲料
多段視頻顯示，現場有一名疑似談判專家與該嫌犯進行了對話。經澎湃新聞核實，這位女性並不是談判專家，而是一位剛剛拿到記者證的女記者。
Footage widely circulated on Chinese social media shows a female in a blue jacket approaching the hostage-taker and apparently talking to him before he was shot dead. The woman was not a hostage negotiator as many assumed, but is a reporter with Yunnan Media Group, the Paper reported.據云南廣播電視臺都市頻道報導，當時距離嫌疑人3米的藍衣女子是該單位都市條形碼女記者，劫匪要求見記者，而且必須是女記者，只給10分鐘時間，剛領到記者證的女記者就上去了。
The woman, who had just been certified with a press card, went up to the suspect upon the latter’s request to talk to a reporter - female only, according to Yunnan Media Group.據云南記協消息，劫持過程中這名女記者起到了很大作用，她不停與劫匪說話，穩定了他的情緒，控制了場面，給後面的特警創造了機會。
The Yunnan Journalists Association said the woman played an important role in stabilizing the suspect and getting control of the situation by engaging him in a conversation, and buying time for a sniper, who shot him.【參考閱讀】1.昆明劫持案現場，一位女記者上前給人質遞可樂 雙語君 中國日報雙語新聞 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/XPwvW-wW-X49lY5HBAeddA