In the US, as hate crimes against Asians continue to end, two Asian grandmothers were stabbed at a bus stop in the middle of the city.
The Washington Post (WP) and ABC broadcast on the 5th in US local time reported that an 85-year-old Asian woman and a woman in her 60s in San Francisco, California, were severely injured by a weapon attack by a man in her 50s.
The police arrested the suspect and are investigating the motives of the crime, including whether or not it was a hate crime.
Two victims were attacked while waiting for a bus at a bus stop in downtown San Francisco at around 5 pm on the 4th.
Witnesses say the suspect stabbed Asian grandmothers using a weapon that looked like a military knife with a knuckle in the handle. One victim bleed heavily and the other victim had a blade stuck in his arm.
Two victims were transferred to a nearby hospital, undergone urgent surgery, and are recovering in the intensive care unit.
"It was a pretty big knife," said Patricia Lee, who was at the scene of the incident, with a hole in the blade like a military knife.
There was also testimony that the suspect left the scene without embarrassment immediately after the crime.
Patricia Lee said the perpetrator didn't run away immediately after the crime. "It went away as if nothing had happened on Sunday morning."
The police, who were reported and dispatched, found a piece of the discarded knife near the city's Union Square construction site, and caught the suspect after a search.
The police issued a statement and said the motive for the crime was not yet known, and said they were investigating the suspect to determine whether to apply the hate crime charge.
Police did not disclose the identities of the victims and suspects.
San Francisco District 6 supervisor Matt Hayney, where the incident occurred, condemned the incident, saying, "Two Asian old men were attacked nasty and terrible."
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