Three held over knife attack on students

By Jane Chen | May 20, 2010, Thursday |

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HAINAN Province police said today that they have caught three people involved in yesterday's knife attack on a local vocational college dormitory that injured 13 students.

Police said they are still hunting for other attackers involved, the local Website Hinews.cn reported.

More than five men armed with knives burst into the dorm at the Institute of Science and Technology early yesterday morning in Hainan's capital city Haikou and slashed nine students, injuring one of them seriously.

Four students had been wounded in an earlier confrontation, bringing the total number of injured to 13.

It said eight were wounded slightly, while one's hand was severed. Two students remained hospitalized with wounds that were not life-threatening, earlier reports said.

The violence began with a confrontation late on Tuesday between some of the college's students eating at a food stall outside the school and men from surrounding villages.

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Three held over knife attack on students

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