A man shot dead six people and wounded three others at a village in southwest China's Yunnan Province Thursday afternoon, local police said on Friday.

The suspect, 38-year-old Shao Zongqi, is now wanted by the police of Tengchong county.

Shao, who is from the village called Qingkou, is suspected of carrying out the killing with a seemingly semi-automatic rifle before he escaped by a cross-country vehicle, police said in a statement.

The police offers 200,000 yuan as reward for providers of information that leads to the arrest of the suspect or people who capture him.