Americans hospitalized after stabbing in China

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — China is vowing to work with the United States to investigate a stabbing that sent four instructors from American universities in China to the hospital.

The Chinese foreign minister does not give a reason and describes the incident as “isolated”.

The four instructors came from Cornell College in Iowa, three of them American. All are in stable condition.

Chinese police said the man hit a foreigner in a public park early Monday morning when he began stabbing the victims, including a Chinese national who tried to intervene.

On Twitter, the American ambassador to China said he was “angry and deeply disturbed” by the knife attack. He said he visited the victims in the hospital.

A spokesperson for the office of Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said: “The U.S. Consulate General in Shenyang confirmed to Senator Grassley that it is working to advocate for the victims of the attack, the consul general planning a personal meeting with them at the hospital. Senator Grassley is ready to help.

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) said at least one of the American victims is expected to return to the United States in the next 24 hours and said that so far Beijing has been “very cooperative.”

“What I don't want people to do is jump to the conclusion that there was anything other than a random, unprovoked attack, until we have that information, that's what we have,” says Miller-Meeks.