SHANGHAI: Disputes between urban management officers, known as chengguan, and peddlers often end up as bloody stories. Chengguan are well known for beating peddlers, but this time, the story is the opposite.

On Sunday, a peddler stabbed a city-image coordinator, assistant to chengguan, to death at about 7 pm at the exit of a subway station at Hongkou stadium after a fight broke out during law enforcement.

The coordinator, surnamed Ju, about 40 years old, was stabbed in the left chest right below the heart while he and another female coordinator were on duty, and trying to drive away the peddler who was allegedly blocking the traffic of the subway station.