Beijing: Eight individuals have been killed and 17 others injured in a knife assault at a vocational college in jap China on Saturday (Nov 16), and the suspect, a former pupil, was arrested, police mentioned.
The assault occurred within the night on the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Art and Technology within the metropolis of Yixing, Jiangsu province, Yixing police mentioned in a press release, confirming the toll.
Police mentioned the suspect was a 21-year-old former pupil of the college, who was as a result of graduate this yr however had failed his exams.
“He returned to highschool to precise his anger and commit these murders,” police mentioned, including that the suspect had confessed.
In Yixing, police mentioned emergency providers have been totally mobilized to deal with the injured and supply aftercare to these affected by the assault.
Violent knife crime isn’t unusual in China, the place firearms are strictly managed, however assaults with such a excessive demise toll are comparatively uncommon.
Earlier this week, a 62-year-old man killed 35 individuals and injured greater than 40 when he crashed his small SUV into crowds within the southern metropolis of Zhuhai.
And quite a few different assaults have occurred in latest months.
In October, a person killed three individuals and injured 15 others in a knife assault in a grocery store in Shanghai.
And the month earlier than, a Japanese schoolboy was stabbed to demise within the southern metropolis of Shenzhen, on the border with Hong Kong.
