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NEW YORK (AP) — A Chinese immigrant was arrested Sunday on five counts of murder in the deaths of his cousin's wife and her four children in a stabbing rampage in their Brooklyn home.

The suspect, 25-year-old Ming Don Chen, implicated himself in the stabbings late Saturday in the Sunset Park neighborhood, police said. Chief of Department Phil Banks said the victims "were cut and butchered with a kitchen knife."

Two girls, 9-year-old Linda Zhuo and 7-year-old Amy Zhuo, were pronounced dead at the scene, along with the youngest child, 1-year-old William Zhuo. Their brother, 5-year-old Kevin Zhuo, and 37-year-old mother, Qiao Zhen Li, were taken to hospitals, where they also were pronounced dead.

Chen is a cousin of the children's father and had been staying at the home for the past week or so, Banks said. He came to the United States from China in 2004 and seemingly struggled to make it, Banks said.

"Ever since he came to this country, everybody seems to be doing better than him," he said.

On Saturday night, Chen had apparently been acting in such a way that concerned Li, Banks said. She tried to call her husband, who wasn't home, but couldn't reach him.

Banks said Li called her mother-in-law in China, who also was unsuccessful in reaching her son. The mother-in-law reached out to her daughter, who lives in the neighborhood, Banks said.

She and her husband came to the house and banged on the door, then called 911. Officers in the area investigating another matter responded, Banks said.

"It's a scene you'll never forget," he said. The victims had wounds in their necks and torsos.

Chen was in custody and wasn't immediately available to comment. He also faces counts of assault on a police officer, which happened while he was being processed, and resisting arrest, Banks said.

Bob Madden, who lives nearby, was out walking his dog when he saw a man being escorted from the building by police. He was barefoot, wearing jeans, and "he was staring, he was expressionless," Madden said.

Yuan Gao, a cousin of the mother, said the man had recently moved to the area and had been staying with different people.

Fire department spokesman Jim Long said emergency workers responded just before 11 p.m. to a 911 call from a person stabbed at the residence in Sunset Park, a working-class neighborhood of adjoining two-story brick buildings with a large Chinese community.

Neighbor May Chan told the Daily News it was "heartbreaking" to learn of the deaths.

"I always see (the kids) running around here," Chan said. "They run around by my garage playing. They run up and down screaming."

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bd popeye said:

If that

would have occurred in the US there would have been gunfire.

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Equation said:

My personal goal in life to make her my wife.

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Equation said:

Crazy psychopath. He's lucky he's in the US, otherwise in China he would've gotten the death penalty.

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Equation said:

Crazy psychopath. He's lucky he's in the US, otherwise in China he would've gotten the death penalty.

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There are several “Walled Cities” situated on the edges of Zhengzhou City; each room measure 10 square meters and can be rented for 6 yuan a day. There are thousands of these container houses featuring tiled floors, secured windows, power supply and even air conditioning. If moving is needed, it can easily be done by using a simple crane.

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At midnight, the migrant workers are all peacefully asleep inside the container.

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A resident rushes to the toilet before even finding the time to put on some pants in the early morning.

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At 5 a.m., a villager living nearby delivers steamed buns to the construction site.

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Lunch time!

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A boy and his sister are doing their homework inside the container.

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Doctors and nurses at No. 1 Hospital in Wenling, Zhejiang Province, gather at the temporary autopsy room on Sunday, guarding the body of Dr. Wang Yunjie, who was stabbed to death two days earlier while at work. Only a few staff members held their posts.

The hospital staff joined Wang's family in their standoff with the hospital authorities. Earlier on Sunday, the hospital conducted post-mortem autopsy to Dr. Wang Yunjie, chief of the hospital's ENT. Later the hospital summoned several auxiliary police officers, attempting to cremate Wang's body before even consulting Wang's family for approval. [Photo / Sina]

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People start to disperse around 4:20 a.m., after Wenling's local government officials arrive at the hospital scene to mitigate the dispute. [Photo / Sina]

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October 28, 2013 morning, the First People's Hospital of Wenling City, Zhejiang Province, hundreds of medical personnel in Wenling shouted for the president of the hospital to step down. They desire zero tolerance of "medical violence. Thye want local goverment officals to be concerned about medical safety & eliminate hospital medical violence occurs.

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Three children performed their acrobatic stunts to the sound of some musical accompaniment on the evening of October 24 in Shaoxing City. A basket stands in front of the children. Every now and then, someone will put some loose change in it. The three youngsters all come from Henan Province. The boy is around 10 years of age, whereas the girls are between 17 and 20 years old.

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Peng Shuai of China (L) and Hsieh Su-Wei of Chinese Taipei (R) show their champion trophies at the award ceremony after the doubles final of the WTA tennis championships against Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina of Russia at Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 27, 2013. Peng Shuai and Hsieh Su-Wei won the doubles final 2-0. [Photo/Xinhua]

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A truck with 16 rotating brooms sweeps the street on Jingtai Road in Northwest China's Gansu province on October 26, 2013. [Photo/CNS]

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bd popeye said:

Equation, your state and many other states have the death penalty. But not New York. I know you know that. In New York it may be two years before he goes to trail.

In China he would have been arrested, convicted and executed in about two months from the time he committed the crime.

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Equation said:

In Huntsville, TX the folks over there use to have electrical flickering through out the entire town, that's when they knew an execution has taken place.

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Beijing (AFP) - Five people including a Philippine tourist were killed and 38 were injured after a vehicle ploughed into crowds in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Monday and caught fire, police said.

The blaze sent clouds of smoke billowing into the air near a giant portrait of Mao Zedong that hangs at one end of the square, the site of pro-democracy protests in 1989 which were brutally crushed by the authorities.

Witnesses and reports said the SUV vehicle drove along the pavement outside the Forbidden City, the former imperial palace, before crashing -- prompting speculation the incident was intentional.

Immediately afterwards a security operation swung into force on the vast plaza, the symbolic centre of the Chinese state.

"I saw a car turn a bend and suddenly it was driving on the pavement. It happened fast but looked like it knocked people over," one eyewitness, who did not want to be named, told AFP.

"I heard an explosion and saw fire. The scene was very frightening," he added. "There were paramilitary police who told people to get back into their cars and stop taking pictures."

Images posted on Chinese social media sites showed the blazing shell of the SUV and a plume of black smoke rising near a portrait of communist China's founder that hangs on the Forbidden City's towering wall, while crowds looked on.

Several pictures posted online were deleted within minutes, streets leading to the square were blocked off and barriers were erected.

Two AFP reporters were temporarily detained close to the site and images were deleted from their digital equipment.

"The incident led to five deaths and 38 injuries," Beijing police said on their verified account on Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter.

The driver of the vehicle and two passengers were killed, along with two tourists, one a woman from the Philippines and the other a man from Guangdong province in southern China, they said.

Three Philippine tourists and one Japanese were among the injured, police added, saying the vehicle had crashed into the guardrail on Jinshui Bridge, which crosses the moat around the Forbidden City, and then caught fire.

The Southern Metropolis Daily quoted an injured Philippine woman named Francesca as saying: "I heard the car's horn honking, but I noticed it too late. My mind went completely blank, and when I woke again I was completely on the ground."

Philippine government officials said they had been informed of the death of one of their nationals.

"Beijing's public security bureau informed our embassy that a Filipina was one of those killed in the car crash in Tiananmen Square earlier today. Three other Filipinos, a male and two females, were also injured and brought to the hospital," foreign affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez told AFP.

One 58-year-old Italian tourist said he was touring the Forbidden City when officers came in around noon and ushered everybody out.

Tiananmen Square is generally kept under tight security, with both uniformed and plainclothes personnel deployed. Many are equipped with fire extinguishers.

Social media users speculated that the car was crashed intentionally.

"Is this the 2013 Tiananmen self-immolation incident?" asked the writer of one post. "There's still a person inside the car!"

Around 120 Tibetans have set themselves alight since February 2009 in Tibet itself and adjoining regions of China, in protest against what they see as oppression by Beijing.

The writer of another post noted that the vehicle had driven through a pedestrian area, adding: "It couldn't have been a car accident but was a premeditated event."

Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said she did not know "the specifics" when asked whether there was any evidence of a terrorist attack.

State broadcaster CCTV did not mention the incident on its flagship evening bulletin.

The first reports of the crash trickled online Monday afternoon from Chinese social media users at the scene.

Soon afterwards police erected high curtain-like barricades directly in front of the Mao portrait, blocking passers-by from viewing the scene.

Police stopped people from entering the square and said an "event" was happening there, while an officer in a van blared orders to leave through a loudspeaker.

Vehicles were later allowed back on to the main road in front of the Forbidden City, a world heritage site that sees 14 million visitors a year.

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