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In Beijing, Parents Of Ex-Player Are Stabbed; One Dies
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The government has deployed more than 100,000 police, soldiers and plainclothes officers around the capital and has instituted bag checks at all subway and train stations, as well as at many high-traffic tourist points.
A couple of hours after the attack, officials closed the gates of the Drum Tower, an imposing imperial Chinese structure that was once used to tell time.
A manager of a local tour company said officials at the tower had not required visitors to go through a security check. The manager, Liu Jin of San Hai Travel Co., said she was unsure when the Drum Tower would reopen and whether security checks would be in place.
"My assumption is that it is a mental health issue, an individual issue," said Claire Cuddy, 60, who works in the education department of the Smithsonian Institution. "I hope it is an anomaly."
The incident highlighted China's skill at controlling information. Forensic crews had just finished up when the state-run New China News Agency first reported on the stabbing.
By the time international news crews arrived, about 20 minutes later, much of the evidence had been removed.
Around the square, several men and women with red armbands, signifying that they are members of a volunteer neighborhood watch committee that works with local officials, told witnesses to go home. Owners of the shops around the tower said they were either out when the deaths occurred or busy. One smiled politely and said he had heard nothing because his television was on too loud.
Todd Bachman was the chief executive of Bachman's, a floral, gift and nursery retailer and wholesaler in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area founded more than 120 years ago by his great-grandfather Henry Bachman Sr.
Staff writers Les Carpenter, Michael Abramowitz and Liz Clarke and researchers Liu Songjie and Crissie Ding contributed to this report.
