Chinese man stabs children in kindergarten, 31 hurt
A knife-wielding man injured 28 children, two teachers and a
security guard in a kindergarten in eastern China, state media
reported on Thursday, the fourth such stabbing case in recent
weeks, Reuters reported.
Xu Yuyuan, 47, an unemployed local man, broke into a classroom in
Taixing city of eastern Jiangsu province on Thursday morning,
attacking the children with a 20 cm long knife, the official Xinhua
news agency said.
The injured children were all about four years old, and five are in
critical condition, it added.
Xu has been jobless since he was fired from a local insurance
company in 2001, and then took part in pyramid selling schemes,
Xinhua added.
The attack is the fourth reported school stabbing in China in
recent weeks, and the rash of violence has prompted public calls
for more measures to protect students in a country where many
couples only have one child.
A man stabbed 16 students and a teacher at a primary school in
southern China on Wednesday, the same day that a former doctor was
executed for stabbing to death eight school children last
month.
"More concrete measures should be taken to make school the safest
place," a commentary in today's Beijing News said, calling for more
serve punishment for these killers.
Some web users are discussing about the root causes of the
increasing number of school tragedies.
"We should think about these cases from a deeper side, the voices
of weak people were ignored, and then they took revenge on
society," said one commentary on the online Bulletin Board System
of Tsinghua University (www.newsmth.net).
A commentary by the official China Youth Daily, shortly after the
first stabbing, said that in addition to beefing up security at
schools, the government should offer more psychological counseling
across the country. *
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