Six Killed in Brutal Stabbing at Southern China Kindergarten
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China – Six people, including three children, have been killed and one injured in a brutal stabbing at a kindergarten in Southern China, according to an official.
A spokesperson for the government stated that the attack took place in Lianjiang in Guangdong province on Monday, local time.
The three victims consisted of a kindergarten teacher and two parents, "The victims consist of one teacher, two parents, and three students, currently one suspect had been arrested," the spokesperson said.
As information, the BBC also reported the incident, citing local police who said the attack took place at 7.40 am, local time on Sunday. And, the suspect is known as a 25-year-old man with the family name Wu was arrested 20 minutes later.
Moreover, police have classified the case as “intentional assault”, the report added.
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The incident was the top-trending discussion on the social media platform Weibo, with 130 million views as of 12.20 pm, but videos shot by passersby claiming to show the crime scene were removed from Weibo as well as video-sharing platform Douyin.
China has seen several stabbing attacks in schools in recent years, despite government efforts to improve security.
Last August, three people were killed after an attack in southern Jiangxi province that also targeted a nursery school.
In April 2021, two children were killed and 16 others wounded when a knife-wielding man entered a kindergarten in southern China. Meanwile, in June of the previous year, 37 students and two adults were wounded by a knife-wielding attacker at a primary school in southern China.
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