Man on rampage with cleaver hacks 2 to death
By Anita Chang |
April 14, 2010, Wednesday
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A MENTALLY ill man rampaged with a meat cleaver near an elementary school, hacking to death a second grader and an elderly woman in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, local officials said yesterday.
Five others were wounded in the second random attack on schoolchildren in China in three weeks.
Yang Jiaqin, 40, chased his victims through Xizhen village of Guangxi not long after classes ended Monday afternoon.
He first attacked the boy, Wu Junpei, who later died from his injuries, and two other schoolboys, who were just 400 meters away from their school gate, according to a statement on the Website of Beihai City, which oversees the village.
He then attacked a couple, a 7-year-old girl and the 81-year-old woman who later died. Three of the wounded were in serious condition, two with skull fractures and one with a spinal injury, the statement said.
Yang was detained by police.
The attack came one day before Yang's family was scheduled to send him to a hospital for psychological treatment.
He had been diagnosed with a mood disorder and had undergone treatment three times since 2005, according to the statement.
On Friday, he attacked a villager whom his father had quarreled with, breaking down the door at the man's home and beating him.
He tried to get into the same house before Monday's attack, but the door was locked. He then killed the family's dog and their neighbor's dog, according to the statement.
The attacks come after a similar crime that shocked China, when a former medical worker stabbed eight children to death on March 23 as they stood outside the gates of their elementary school in southern Fujian Province. Zheng Minsheng, 41, was sentenced to death earlier this month.
Five others were wounded in the second random attack on schoolchildren in China in three weeks.
Yang Jiaqin, 40, chased his victims through Xizhen village of Guangxi not long after classes ended Monday afternoon.
He first attacked the boy, Wu Junpei, who later died from his injuries, and two other schoolboys, who were just 400 meters away from their school gate, according to a statement on the Website of Beihai City, which oversees the village.
He then attacked a couple, a 7-year-old girl and the 81-year-old woman who later died. Three of the wounded were in serious condition, two with skull fractures and one with a spinal injury, the statement said.
Yang was detained by police.
The attack came one day before Yang's family was scheduled to send him to a hospital for psychological treatment.
He had been diagnosed with a mood disorder and had undergone treatment three times since 2005, according to the statement.
On Friday, he attacked a villager whom his father had quarreled with, breaking down the door at the man's home and beating him.
He tried to get into the same house before Monday's attack, but the door was locked. He then killed the family's dog and their neighbor's dog, according to the statement.
The attacks come after a similar crime that shocked China, when a former medical worker stabbed eight children to death on March 23 as they stood outside the gates of their elementary school in southern Fujian Province. Zheng Minsheng, 41, was sentenced to death earlier this month.
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