A knife attack in a school in eastern China left eight dead and 17 injured this Saturday, November 16, 2024, according to theAFP. Authorities said the perpetrator had been arrested.
“At 6:30 p.m., a stabbing attack took place at Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology” in Jiangsu province and left eight dead and 17 injured, said police in the city of Yixing, where the tragedy took place. She said the suspect had “was arrested at the scene”.
A former student who did not graduate
According to the first elements of the investigation, cited in the press release, the suspect is a 21-year-old man, student of the class of 2024. “Because he did not graduate after failing his exams and because he was unhappy with his remuneration during his internship, he returned 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”he concluded at the police.
Several deadly attacks in China in recent months
Such deadly attacks are generally uncommon in the country. But this is the second killing in China this week after a car-ramming attack. A 62-year-old man drove an SUV into people exercising outdoors at a sports complex in Zhuhai, southern Guangdong province, killing 35 people and one person. 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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