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Eight schoolchildren killed in China, suspect arrested: official
BEIJING, Sept 3, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Eight schoolchildren have died and two
others were injured in a “school-related criminal case” in central China,
with a 40-year-old suspect arrested, local authorities said Tuesday, the
latest attack targeting an educational institution in the country.
The man was detained by police on the spot following Monday’s incident in
Chaoyangpo Village in Hubei province, according to a statement on the website
of the government of Enshi city.
The local government is making “every effort” to organise the
rehabilitation and treatment for the wounded, including psychological
counselling, the statement said.
Officials did not say how the students were killed, but schools have been
hit by a number of knife attacks in China in recent years, forcing
authorities to step up security.
A knife-wielding man killed two people and injured two others at a primary
school in central Hunan province in April.
The wounded were students but the age of the dead was not disclosed at the
time.
In October last year, a woman attacked and injured 14 children with a knife
at a kindergarten in China’s southwestern Sichuan province.
In April 2018, a man killed nine middle school students as they were
returning home in one of the country’s deadliest knife attacks in recent
years.
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