China school stabbing leave 28 kids, 3 adults injured

[sheevaa]

Twenty-eight children and three adults have been injured by a man with a knife at a nursery school in eastern China, the third such attack in a month.

Officials said five children were taken to hospital in a critical condition after the incident in Jiangsu province.

It follows a knife attack on Wednesday in the south of the country, in which 16 pupils and one teacher were injured.

Earlier that day, a doctor convicted of stabbing eight children to death in Fujian province in March was executed.

The alleged assailant in Jiangsu was named by police as Xu Yuyuan, a 47-year-old unemployed local man.

Reports say he attacked the children at the Zhongzin pre-school in Taixing city as lessons began in the morning, stabbing a security guard who tried to stop him.

Police said Mr Xu, who was detained shortly afterwards, was carrying a 20cm (8in) knife, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

"The gate-keeper, teachers, and students were attacked. The injured are receiving treatment in hospital. We don't have any reports of deaths yet," an official with the Taixing city government told AFP news agency.

An official named Zhu told AFP the critically-injured children were now in a stable condition.

Most of the injured children were reported to be four-year-olds from the same class.

China has witnessed several school attacks in recent years, most blamed on people with personal grudges or suffering from mental illness.

The BBC's Chris Hogg in Shanghai says the attacks are unsettling in a country where such violent attacks are rare.

Since a spate of attacks in 2004, many schools in China have employed professional guards but the latest incidents have led to public calls for increased security in schools.

China Daily says the education ministry ordered all schools to upgrade their security facilities earlier this month and employ guards.

Schools were also ordered to teach students about safety and ensure young children were escorted home, said the report.

I didn't see this posted already. My mouth dropped when I heard about it from my co-worker earlier today. What the hell could a bunch of 4 year olds have done to have pissed you off so much?

You can read more about that other attacks at the link

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[Silvahalo]

OMG, this is awful, I hope everyone injured pulls threw, 28 children, that's unbelievable!

[Aslan]

What she said.
God was there, that's the only thing I can think about none of them being killed
Wow...therapy ahead for all.

No RIP's here.

[sheevaa]

Hopefully they're young enough not to hate school.

[Marv]

The BBC's Chris Hogg in Shanghai says the attacks are unsettling in a country where such violent attacks are rare.

Since a spate of attacks in 2004, many schools in China have employed professional guards but the latest incidents have led to public calls for increased security in schools.

Not so rare, then.


And I just love how those with 'mental illnesses' always target the most defenceless. 4yr old kids in a school, ffs. They never burst into a police station or army barracks do they!

[Pete Bondurant]

These people velly clazy!

[sheevaa]

Dammit Pete. I'm going to hell for laughing at that!

[sheevaa]

Not so rare, then.


And I just love how those with 'mental illnesses' always target the most defenceless. 4yr old kids in a school, ffs. They never burst into a police station or army barracks do they!

Now THAT would be a story to see! Granted, it would be a very short story. "Crazy dude breaks into cop shop, fires one round and gets blown away"...but still. Four year olds, that's just so fucked up. Like that mental case who went on the shooting spree in a fitness center because he was batshit crazy and no one wanted him.

[Whisper]

BEIJING: A man was executed today the horrific attack on 32 people, mostly children, at a kindergarten in eastern China, in one of a spate of incidents that shocked the nation.
Xu Yuyuan, 47, burst into a classroom in the city of Taixing last month and stabbed children and adults with a large knife, leaving four victims badly injured.
“Xu Yuyuan was executed this morning,” an official at the higher people’s court of Jiangsu province, who refused to be named, told AFP.
There have been five attacks on schools in China in less than two months, with 17 people — including 15 children — killed and more than 80 injured, according to previous Xinhua reports.
[...]
communities across the nation have taken emergency measures including beefing up school security forces and shutting down bars near schools.
Xu, who had been jobless for nine years, was sentenced to death on May 15 by a court in Taizhou city, which governs Taixing, after a half-day trial attended by 300 people.
According to a previous Xinhua report, Xu had told the court his motive was to vent his rage against society after losing money gambling and in business dealings, and suffering setbacks in his personal life. -- AFP

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[MC30]

trust me whisper, you don't wanna live in china.

[Knighted]

Wow - a half-day trial? Seems like that would be just about long enough to read the list of victims and and pronounce sentence.

This didn't happen long ago, either. And now he's been dispatched. In cases like this, works for me.

It's mind boggling the money we spend on processing and housing the ingrates among us here in the states.

Live the Eve Carson murder at UNC - two 20 year olds will be housed, fed for LWOP at our expense -- while we're running up OUTRAGEOUS DEBT that will Sink Us All.