A stabbing attack, perpetrated by a former student, left numerous victims in a school on Saturday. This is the second tragedy of this type in a week in a country unaccustomed to violent incidents of this magnitude.
Desire for revenge? A former student who had not obtained his diploma attacked the establishment he had attended in the city of Yixing, in eastern China, with a knife this Saturday, causing a massacre: eight dead and seventeen injured, the ages of which are still unknown.
Saturday's attack took place at 6:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m. in Paris) 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 indicated. 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 obtain his diploma after failing the 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 carry out the investigation into this matter”he concluded at the police.
35 dead in car-ramming attack
China remains very safe overall, but the country has seen several deadly attacks in recent months. On Monday evening, a 62-year-old man drove an SUV into people exercising outdoors at a sports complex in Zhuhai, Guangdong province (south), killing 35 people. dead and 43 injured, according to the latest official report.
This is the worst killing in recent years in China, a country unaccustomed to violent incidents of this scale. The driver was arrested shortly after the tragedy, when he stabbed himself, particularly in the neck, before being hospitalized in a coma. On the basis of the first elements collected, he was able to commit his act because of his “discontent” regarding the division of property following his divorce, police said this week. This Saturday, the Zhuhai People's Procuratorate decided to“approve the arrest” of the suspect for “endangering public safety by dangerous means”underlined state television, CCTV.
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). In July, a 55-year-old motorist drove into the crowd in Changsha (center), killing eight people, after a property dispute.
