China kindergarten stabbing: Six killed, including three children
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Six people, including three children, were killed Monday when a man attacked them at a kindergarten in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. A 25-year-old, identified by his surname of Wu, was arrested in the city of Lianjiang shortly after 8 a.m. local time on suspicion of “intentional assault,” local police said in a statement posted on social media.
Photos shared by local media outlets showed a man in a black T-shirt and shorts walking across a soccer field carrying a long object that they said was a knife.
A teacher and two parents were among the dead, the AFP news agency reported, quoting a city official. Another person was also reported injured.
Reports about the attack were widely viewed on the microblogging website Weibo, attracting more than 340 million views within four hours.
Violent crime is relatively rare in China, and guns are mostly restricted to the military and the police force. But in recent years, there have been occasional knife attacks at schools, leading to heightened security.
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In August last year, a 48-year-old man attacked a kindergarten in the eastern province of Jiangxi, killing three and injuring six people with a knife. Local police offered a $13,800 reward for information leading to his capture, but the man died in a car crash while trying to evade police.
The previous year, two children were killed and 16 were injured at a kindergarten stabbing in Beiliu city in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The Ministry of Education ordered a nationwide security enhancement at kindergartens, elementary and middle schools following that attack.
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Source: The Washington Post
