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Police launch hunt for killer of 4 schoolboys
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MORE than 2,000 police officers and civilians are searching for a man suspected of stabbing to death four schoolboys yesterday in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
The wanted man was identified in a CCTV news report as 56-year-old Shi Jianting, a resident of Gupu Village in Lingshan County.
The manhunt is focused on a mountainous area of Lingshan, about 7 kilometers from the crime scene.
Shi is suspected of attacking the four children while they were walking to school, the Lingshan publicity department was cited as saying.
“He attacked one child at the gate to Gupu primary school, two on the corner of the street and the last one about 200 meters away,” a witness was quoted as saying by The Beijing News.
Three of the children died at the scene, while the fourth, an 8-year-old who suffered four cuts to his neck, died later at a nearby health center. The fatal attack began at 6:42am, the report said.
The ages of the three other victims were not given, but a health center worker said the four people killed were all boys and pupils at the primary school.
Shi is suspected of fleeing the scene on his motorized tricycle, which was found about 1:30pm in the neighboring town of Fozi, CCTV said.
Police have offered a reward of 100,000 yuan (US$16,300) for information leading to his arrest.
According to residents of Gupu, Shi was a quiet man who had served time in the army but now ran a small grocery store, The Beijing News said.
According to his wife, he had recently become paranoid and thought certain people were bringing misfortune to his family. He had never, however, mentioned any of the four children in such a way, the report said.
The incident is the latest in a series of attacks on schoolchildren this year.
On September 1, a man surnamed Chen stabbed eight pupils and a teacher at a school in the city of Shiyan, central China’s Hubei Province. Three of the children died.
On May 30, eight pupils at a primary school in the city of Macheng, Hubei, suffered stab wounds after 35-year-old Chen Zuihang went on the rampage.
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