Driver plows into student group
By Li Qian |
December 26, 2012, Wednesday
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A MAN who drove into a group of students during their lunch break, injuring 23 of them, has been arrested, police in north China's Hebei Province said yesterday.
Driving a black sedan, Yin Tiejun, 48, accelerated toward the group outside Fengning No. 1 Middle School in Manchu Autonomous County of Fengning shortly after midday on Monday.
"I never saw such a horrible scene," a 50-year-old man told the Beijing Times.
The injured students, some of whom had been on bicycles, had to support each other to stand up and others were lying on the ground with blood coming out of their noses and mouths, the paper reported.
The car hit several other cars along the road before it ran into a taxi and was forced to stop.
Passers-by tried to pull Yin out of his car after smashing his windows with bricks, but he resisted their efforts before lighting a bottle of diesel and setting fire to the vehicle from the inside.
Police arrived several minutes later and took the man away while firefighters doused the flames and retrieved a gas cylinder and firecrackers from the trunk.
During police questioning, Yin denied that these items were intended to be used in an attack, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
Yin was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs but he told police he was upset with a court ruling that had not sentenced all his daughter's killers to death, Xinhua said.
His daugher was murdered three years ago.
Villagers told the Beijing Times that Yin was a local man who divorced his wife 10 years ago and had no stable job.
Ever since the court case, Yin had been lodging complaints about the verdict, the newspaper said.
No further details of the murder case were given but police said there was no connection with the injured students.
Fourteen girls and nine boys, all aged between 16 and 20, were taken to the county hospital.
Among the 13 students hospitalized, one had a fractured skull, the bones in another's feet were broken and one was suffering from damaged blood vessels in his eyes. The 10 others incurred only minor injuries, Fengning officials said, citing hospital sources.
The incident was the latest case involving schoolchildren being attacked. On December 14, a man broke into an elementary school in central Henan Province and wounded 23 students with a knife.
The attack spread fresh fears among parents about their children's safety while at school.
Driving a black sedan, Yin Tiejun, 48, accelerated toward the group outside Fengning No. 1 Middle School in Manchu Autonomous County of Fengning shortly after midday on Monday.
"I never saw such a horrible scene," a 50-year-old man told the Beijing Times.
The injured students, some of whom had been on bicycles, had to support each other to stand up and others were lying on the ground with blood coming out of their noses and mouths, the paper reported.
The car hit several other cars along the road before it ran into a taxi and was forced to stop.
Passers-by tried to pull Yin out of his car after smashing his windows with bricks, but he resisted their efforts before lighting a bottle of diesel and setting fire to the vehicle from the inside.
Police arrived several minutes later and took the man away while firefighters doused the flames and retrieved a gas cylinder and firecrackers from the trunk.
During police questioning, Yin denied that these items were intended to be used in an attack, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
Yin was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs but he told police he was upset with a court ruling that had not sentenced all his daughter's killers to death, Xinhua said.
His daugher was murdered three years ago.
Villagers told the Beijing Times that Yin was a local man who divorced his wife 10 years ago and had no stable job.
Ever since the court case, Yin had been lodging complaints about the verdict, the newspaper said.
No further details of the murder case were given but police said there was no connection with the injured students.
Fourteen girls and nine boys, all aged between 16 and 20, were taken to the county hospital.
Among the 13 students hospitalized, one had a fractured skull, the bones in another's feet were broken and one was suffering from damaged blood vessels in his eyes. The 10 others incurred only minor injuries, Fengning officials said, citing hospital sources.
The incident was the latest case involving schoolchildren being attacked. On December 14, a man broke into an elementary school in central Henan Province and wounded 23 students with a knife.
The attack spread fresh fears among parents about their children's safety while at school.
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