A stabbing attack at a school in eastern China, perpetrated by a former student, left eight people dead and 17 injured on Saturday, authorities said, indicating that the perpetrator had been arrested.
Such deadly attacks are generally uncommon in the country. But this is the second killing in China this week after a car ramming attack which left 35 dead on Monday. Saturday’s attack took place at 6:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m. in Switzerland) in the city of Yixing, at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology, in Jiangsu province, local police announced in a statement. . “It left eight people dead and 17 injured. The suspect was arrested at the scene,” she said.
According to the first elements of the investigation, cited in the press release, the suspect would be a 21-year-old man, student of the class of 2024. “Because he did not obtain his diploma after his failure in the exams and because “He was unhappy with his remuneration during his internship, he came back to school to express his anger and commit these murders,” Yixing police said. The suspect “confessed everything,” she said.
“The services are fully mobilized to provide care to the injured, manage the aftermath of the tragedy and complete the investigation into this matter,” concluded the police. China remains very safe overall, but the country has seen several deadly attacks in recent months.
A 62-year-old man drove an SUV into people exercising outside at a sports complex in Zhuhai, Guangdong province (south), on Monday evening, killing 35 people. and around forty injured. In Shanghai in October, a man killed three people and injured 15 others in a knife attack at a supermarket. In September, a Japanese schoolboy was stabbed to death in Shenzhen (south).
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