Police arrested a 36-year-old local man who stabbed
22 children, at least two of them seriously, and one adult at the gate of a
Henan grade school in central China.
This latest attack happened as pupils were arriving
for classes. A county hospital administrator reportedly said that the man first
attacked an elderly woman, then the children, before being overpowered by
security guards.
Two of the injured pupils have been transferred to
better-equipped hospitals outside the county.
In recent years, knife attacks have broken out,
resulting in increased security in China’s schools. Many of the attackers have
been mentally disturbed men, suggesting that the country’s rapid social changes
and lack of a modernized hospital system may be contributing to a rising number
of mental illness cases.
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