22 pupils hurt in primary school knife attack
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December 15, 2012, Saturday
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A MAN wielding a knife injured 22 children outside a primary school in central China as they were arriving for morning classes yesterday, the latest in a series of periodic rampage attacks at schools and kindergartens.
Shortly before the outrage, the man is said to have attacked an elderly woman who lived next to the school.
The incident in the Henan Province village of Chenpeng happened shortly before 8am, said a police officer from Guangshan County, where the village is located.
The attacker, 36-year-old Min Yingjun, is now in police custody, the officer said.
According to the elderly woman's daughter, Min had burst into the 85-year-old's house beside the school and an argument ensued.
Min is thought to have seized a knife and attacked the woman. He then left, rushed into the school campus and slashed students, villagers said.
A hospital administrator said the man was subdued by security guards posted at the Chenpeng Village Primary School.
Many such guards have been posted across China following the spate of school attacks in recent years.
The hospital official said there were no deaths among the nine students admitted, although two badly injured children had been transferred to better-equipped hospitals outside the county. The woman is in a serious condition.
A doctor at Guangshan's hospital of traditional Chinese medicine said seven students had been admitted, but none was seriously injured.
The attacker was unknown in the village and might be mentally ill, some villagers said.
The woman and most of the injured students suffered head wounds. Some of them were in shock, according to the county's People's Hospital.
"I want to go home!" cried a 7-year-old pupil surnamed Wei, who arrived at the hospital in a serious condition with a skull fracture. The boy's coat was stained with blood and he was terrified because of the attack, his relatives said.
No motive was given for the stabbings, which echo a string of similar assaults against schoolchildren in 2010 that killed nearly 20 and wounded more than 50. The most recent such attack was in August, when a man broke into a middle school in the southern city of Nanchang and stabbed two students before fleeing.
Most of the attackers are believed to be mentally disturbed men involved in personal disputes or unable to adjust to the rapid pace of social change.
In one of the worst incidents, an unemployed doctor killed eight children with a knife in March 2010 to vent his anger over a thwarted romantic relationship.
Shortly before the outrage, the man is said to have attacked an elderly woman who lived next to the school.
The incident in the Henan Province village of Chenpeng happened shortly before 8am, said a police officer from Guangshan County, where the village is located.
The attacker, 36-year-old Min Yingjun, is now in police custody, the officer said.
According to the elderly woman's daughter, Min had burst into the 85-year-old's house beside the school and an argument ensued.
Min is thought to have seized a knife and attacked the woman. He then left, rushed into the school campus and slashed students, villagers said.
A hospital administrator said the man was subdued by security guards posted at the Chenpeng Village Primary School.
Many such guards have been posted across China following the spate of school attacks in recent years.
The hospital official said there were no deaths among the nine students admitted, although two badly injured children had been transferred to better-equipped hospitals outside the county. The woman is in a serious condition.
A doctor at Guangshan's hospital of traditional Chinese medicine said seven students had been admitted, but none was seriously injured.
The attacker was unknown in the village and might be mentally ill, some villagers said.
The woman and most of the injured students suffered head wounds. Some of them were in shock, according to the county's People's Hospital.
"I want to go home!" cried a 7-year-old pupil surnamed Wei, who arrived at the hospital in a serious condition with a skull fracture. The boy's coat was stained with blood and he was terrified because of the attack, his relatives said.
No motive was given for the stabbings, which echo a string of similar assaults against schoolchildren in 2010 that killed nearly 20 and wounded more than 50. The most recent such attack was in August, when a man broke into a middle school in the southern city of Nanchang and stabbed two students before fleeing.
Most of the attackers are believed to be mentally disturbed men involved in personal disputes or unable to adjust to the rapid pace of social change.
In one of the worst incidents, an unemployed doctor killed eight children with a knife in March 2010 to vent his anger over a thwarted romantic relationship.
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