Man held after 29 kindergarten pupils are knifed
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April 30, 2010, Friday
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TWENTY-NINE children and three adults were injured when a man with a knife attacked them at a kindergarten in an east China city yesterday.
All the victims were severely traumatized, said a spokesman with the government of Taixing City in Jiangsu Province.
Five children were seriously injured in the attack at the Zhongxin Kindergarten in Taixing and two were in critical condition, he said.
Liang Baohua, chief of the Communist Party of China in Jiangsu, and Provincial Governor Luo Zhijun arrived in Taixing yesterday to oversee an inquiry and visit the injured.
The assailant broke into the kindergarten's No. 2 classroom wielding a 20-centimeter knife and attacked, police said.
A security guard who tried to stop the man from entering the kindergarten was among the injured.
The injured children are aged 4 and 5, while two kindergarten teachers were also hurt in the attack.
Zhao Yi, 5, one of the injured children, is in the Taixing No. 3 People's Hospital. She has two wounds on the back of her neck. "Each wound is 10cm long," said Zhao's grandmother, who was comforting the girl.
The woman said she heard that a milkman broke a mop handle over the attacker's head, which led to the man's capture.
Another victim of the attack, a boy, is in the same hospital as Zhao suffering slash wounds to the back of his head. His grandmother said his two wounds were 16cm long.
Hu Yafeng, a salesman in Hainaxingdi Supermarket near the kindergarten, said he and four others, including police, alerted by locals, apprehended the attacker.
The assailant, 47, was detained, said a Taixing police spokesman.
He has been identified as Xu Yuyuan, an unemployed local.
He had been a salesman in a local insurance company until he was fired in 2001. Since then, he has remained jobless and taken part in illegal pyramid schemes.
"Xu looked and spoke normally this morning," said Xu's tenant, who talked with him just hours before the morning attack.
On Wednesday, a man broke into a primary school in Leizhou City in south China's Guangdong Province and wounded 16 students and a teacher in a knife attack.
That attack came on the same day as another man was executed for killing eight children last month.
It was not known if Xu knew about the previous day's attack in Guangdong, but Zhou Xiaozheng, a sociology professor at Renmin University in Beijing, said these sorts of violent attacks often happened in clusters as they triggered copycats.
"It's like suicide, another type of mental health problem that can spread in a community," said Zhou.
Two weeks ago, a mentally ill man hacked to death a second grader and an elderly woman with a meat cleaver in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southwest China and wounded five other people.
All the victims were severely traumatized, said a spokesman with the government of Taixing City in Jiangsu Province.
Five children were seriously injured in the attack at the Zhongxin Kindergarten in Taixing and two were in critical condition, he said.
Liang Baohua, chief of the Communist Party of China in Jiangsu, and Provincial Governor Luo Zhijun arrived in Taixing yesterday to oversee an inquiry and visit the injured.
The assailant broke into the kindergarten's No. 2 classroom wielding a 20-centimeter knife and attacked, police said.
A security guard who tried to stop the man from entering the kindergarten was among the injured.
The injured children are aged 4 and 5, while two kindergarten teachers were also hurt in the attack.
Zhao Yi, 5, one of the injured children, is in the Taixing No. 3 People's Hospital. She has two wounds on the back of her neck. "Each wound is 10cm long," said Zhao's grandmother, who was comforting the girl.
The woman said she heard that a milkman broke a mop handle over the attacker's head, which led to the man's capture.
Another victim of the attack, a boy, is in the same hospital as Zhao suffering slash wounds to the back of his head. His grandmother said his two wounds were 16cm long.
Hu Yafeng, a salesman in Hainaxingdi Supermarket near the kindergarten, said he and four others, including police, alerted by locals, apprehended the attacker.
The assailant, 47, was detained, said a Taixing police spokesman.
He has been identified as Xu Yuyuan, an unemployed local.
He had been a salesman in a local insurance company until he was fired in 2001. Since then, he has remained jobless and taken part in illegal pyramid schemes.
"Xu looked and spoke normally this morning," said Xu's tenant, who talked with him just hours before the morning attack.
On Wednesday, a man broke into a primary school in Leizhou City in south China's Guangdong Province and wounded 16 students and a teacher in a knife attack.
That attack came on the same day as another man was executed for killing eight children last month.
It was not known if Xu knew about the previous day's attack in Guangdong, but Zhou Xiaozheng, a sociology professor at Renmin University in Beijing, said these sorts of violent attacks often happened in clusters as they triggered copycats.
"It's like suicide, another type of mental health problem that can spread in a community," said Zhou.
Two weeks ago, a mentally ill man hacked to death a second grader and an elderly woman with a meat cleaver in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southwest China and wounded five other people.
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