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A knife-wielding man stabbed seven children and a teacher to death at a kindergarten in China earlier today, the latest in a string of attacks on the country’s youngest pupils.
The man wounded 20 others before killing himself. It was the fifth violent assault on schoolchildren in China in less than two months.
The attack occurred about 8am (local time) as the school day was about to start at a Nanzheng County school in northwest China’s Shaanxi province.
The killings took place despite a recent boost in security at school grounds ordered by the local government in keeping with national directives following the recent spate of attacks.
Calls to the kindergarten went unanswered, but one doctor from the Hanzhong Hospital No. 3201, described the scene. “Doctors just rushed back to fetch some tools and I saw they had tears in their eyes,” said the doctor, who gave only her surname, Dong. “The children are seriously injured. It’s very tragic. I don’t know how many are sent to our hospital. At first I heard seven or eight. A lot of parents are in the hospital and I must go to comfort them now,” she said.
Today’s incident follows an attack on April 28 when a man in his 40s stabbed 17 children and a teacher in a primary school in Leizhou, in South China’s Guangdong province.
It occurred the same day that Zhang Minsheng, a 42-year-old doctor, was executed in neighbouring Fujian province for the murders of eight children as they waited in line for classes to start at their elementary school on March 23. Five were seriously hurt in the attack, which shocked China.
Zhang said at his trial last month that he killed the children because he was upset after being jilted by a woman and treated badly by her wealthy family.
The Leizhou attack in April was the second in as many years. In February 2008, a former student of the Leizhou No 2 Middle School broke into a classroom, stabbed to death a boy and a girl and injured five people. He then stabbed himself and jumped from the fifth floor of the school, committing suicide.
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