BEIJING: Three people were killed and six others were injured in a knife attack at 1 am on Wednesday. the kindergarten In Jianxi province of southeast China.
A “gangster wearing a cap and mask” stormed a private kindergarten in Anfu County at around 10:00 a.m. local time. GMT), police said in a statement published on China’s Twitter-like Weibo. He said the 48-year-old suspect is still absconding.
“Public security organs are making every effort to trace the suspect,” the police statement said.
In a video of the scene shared by the state-run Beijing Daily, a police officer can be seen carrying a small child in his arms to an ambulance.
The age of the victims has not been announced.
Large-scale violent crime is rare in China, which strictly prohibits civilians from possessing firearms, but rampant stabbings have occurred in recent years.
And deadly knife attacks specifically targeting kindergarten and school students have occurred across the country, allegedly by people seeking revenge on society.
Last April, two children were killed and 16 others were injured when a knife-wielding man broke into a kindergarten in southern China.
More recently, four people were injured a stab on a major Shanghai The assailant, who attacked the hospital with a knife last month, was shot dead by the police.
In June last year, six people were killed and 14 were injured after stabbing passersby on a pedestrian shopping street in the eastern Chinese city of Anqing.
A “gangster wearing a cap and mask” stormed a private kindergarten in Anfu County at around 10:00 a.m. local time. GMT), police said in a statement published on China’s Twitter-like Weibo. He said the 48-year-old suspect is still absconding.
“Public security organs are making every effort to trace the suspect,” the police statement said.
In a video of the scene shared by the state-run Beijing Daily, a police officer can be seen carrying a small child in his arms to an ambulance.
The age of the victims has not been announced.
Large-scale violent crime is rare in China, which strictly prohibits civilians from possessing firearms, but rampant stabbings have occurred in recent years.
And deadly knife attacks specifically targeting kindergarten and school students have occurred across the country, allegedly by people seeking revenge on society.
Last April, two children were killed and 16 others were injured when a knife-wielding man broke into a kindergarten in southern China.
More recently, four people were injured a stab on a major Shanghai The assailant, who attacked the hospital with a knife last month, was shot dead by the police.
In June last year, six people were killed and 14 were injured after stabbing passersby on a pedestrian shopping street in the eastern Chinese city of Anqing.