Hong Kong actor Simon Yam stabbed on stage in China

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Hong Kong actor Simon Yam stabbed on stage in China

 

Hong Kong actor Simon Yam speaks during a news conference to promote his movie "Nightfall" in Seoul September 12, 2012. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won/Files

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - An unknown assailant stabbed Hong Kong actor Simon Yam on Saturday during a promotional event in mainland China but Yam's injuries were not life-threatening, Chinese state media reported.

 

A video was posted on China's Twitter-like Weibo service showing a man in a dark vest rushing up to the stage and attacking Yam with a knife in the city of Zhongshan in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong.

 

The China Youth Daily newspaper said on its website that the 64-year old Yam had been taken to hospital for treatment but the injuries to his hands and abdomen were not life-threatening.

 

Citing a police statement, it said the attacker had not yet been identified, but that Yam appeared to have been a victim of mistaken identity.

 

Yam won critical acclaim for his role in the Hong Kong crime film Contact in 1992 and made his Hollywood debut in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life in 2003. He is also a film producer.

 

(Reporting by David Stanway; Editing by Gareth Jones)

 

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[IraqRon]

oh, this is terrible, someone should do something, sometime.

[Isaan sailor]

Chuck Communist Fina.

[Geoffggi]

I wonder why the people from Hong Kong don't want justice in China......

[UnkleGoooose]

I can't fault it, this is in the entertainment section and I would have been entertained watching that.