3 pupils, teacher die in knife attack
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A FATHER angered by his daughter’s rejected registration fatally stabbed three of her classmates and their teacher and injured five other fifth-graders before jumping to his death from a school in central China’s Hubei Province yesterday.
The pupils who died were an 11-year-old girl and two 10-year-old boys, China Central Television reported.
Another 10-year-old boy was in a serious condition last night, doctors said.
An initial police investigation suggested that Chen Yanfu, 40, held a grudge against Dongfang Primary School in Yunxi County after his daughter had been denied registration for the new semester for not completing her summer homework.
Students in primary and middle schools in China are assigned homework during summer and winter vacations.
Chen entered the school around 10:20am on the pretext of registering his daughter, the provincial police department said in a press release.
He went directly to a classroom on the fifth floor where the teacher, Liu Hongqing, was checking homework. Chen, wielding a knife, entered the room and, without saying a word, started stabbing at students, one of Liu’s colleagues told The Beijing News.
Liu was stabbed in the chest while trying to stop the attack.
Another teacher arrived and held Chen from behind while a colleague came to his aid carrying a wooden club, the newspaper said.
The pair cornered Chen on a stairway and waited for police to arrive.
But before he could be apprehended, Chen made it to the roof and jumped to his death.
Security at schools in China has been tightened following a spate of attacks on children in recent years, many perpetrated in schools and kindergartens.
In March 2010, a man killed eight children outside their elementary school in Fujian Province. Less than two months later, several separate attacks on children were reported across the country.
Yesterday was the first day of the new semester after the summer break for most schools in China.
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