A man killed seven middle school children and injured 12 others with a knife, as they returned home in northern China on Friday, authorities reported, in one of the deadliest such rampages in the country in recent years. But Knife attacks are not uncommon in the country.
The suspect was arrested and the injured children were receiving hospitalized, the propaganda department of Mizhi County in Shaanxi province said on its official social media account.
The incident occurred at around 6:10 pm local time, the department said, without exposing further details.
In February, a knife-wielding man with a personal grudge killed a woman and injured 12 others in a busy Beijing shopping mall — a rare act of violence in the heavily policed capital.
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In 2017, a man armed with a kitchen knife killed two people and wounded nine others in a supermarket in the southern city of Shenzhen.
And in January 2017, a man armed with a kitchen knife stabbed and wounded 11 children at a kindergarten in China’s southern Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
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