62-year-old fatally shoots colleagues and soldier

Police in China say a man has shot dead five people and also killed a sixth, including some of his colleagues, in a rare case of gun violence in the country.

The Shanghai Public Security Bureau said Sunday that a 62-year-old surnamed Fan beat a colleague to death using tools over an economic dispute Saturday afternoon at a chemical factory in Shanghai's Baoshan district.

The bureau says on its microblog that Fan then took a hunting rifle that was hidden in his dormitory and killed a driver who he asked to take him to another district and a soldier who was guarding the entrance to a barracks.

He then returned to the factory and fatally shot three more people including a manager. Police say they captured him there.