Police in the southern Chinese city of Haikou say a knife-wielding man has slashed 10 children outside a primary school before killing himself. None of them suffered life threatening injuries, but two were seriously injured, media reports said.
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“I thought my child would be safe at school”.
A few years ago, there was a string of vicious stabbings at primary schools across China that caused widespread public concern and rampant speculation about the cause for such attacks.
In April 2010, a man stabbed 29 school children and three teachers at a kindergarten in Taixing city, in eastern Jiangsu province.
Ten school pupils have been injured after a man with a knife attacked them at the school gates.
The attacker was later identified as 45-year-old Li Sijun.
The paper reports that the man was seen lying in a lane near the school, unconscious, in the wake of the attack, and that it was believed he killed himself.
The state-run China Daily reported that bloodstains and students’ belongings were scattered at the site where the children had been leaving for home during lunchtime in the provincial capital of Haikou.
However, there have been a series of attacks involving knives and axes in recent years.
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Most of the people who carried out the attacks were described by the police as mentally disturbed.
