"When he took out a chainsaw, shoppers first thought it was some kind of game," Alexander Lastovsky, the police spokesman, told Reuters. He said the chainsaw and the hammer had been hidden in a guitar case which the man was carrying.
"Then he cut one woman badly with the chainsaw and hit her with a hammer. She died. He also attacked others."
At least one wounded woman was rushed to hospital, he said. The assailant was detained after one or two minutes, he said.
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