At least six dead and one injured in a knife attack in a Chinese kindergarten

At least six people died this morning, and one was injured stabbing in kindergarten in the Chinese city of Lianjiang, in the southeast of the country. according to the newspaper paper, which refers to the testimonies of local residents, a man arrived at the kindergarten with a knife, which he used at the entrance to attack a child and two adults before entering. The local police limited themselves to the explanation in the statement that a 25-year-old manSurname Wu and a resident of the city committed a “deliberate attack” at 7:40 a.m. this Monday and are in custody.

The authorities did not provide information on the age or identity of the victims, although according to some local media, it is not excluded that there are children among the dead, and some state that the victims are a teacher, two parents and three minors.

In recent years, there have been numerous similar attacks in kindergartens and schools in that Asian country. A similar event in Jiangxi province last August left three dead and six injured. In April 2021, a man killed two people and injured 16 others at a kindergarten in the southern Guangxi region.

China’s Ministry of Education issued a circular in 2019 urging all schools in the country to increase security to prevent potential attackers from accessing the premises. The Chinese media often talk about these kinds of incidents, including some of the clashes with the crowd, which have also occurred in recent months, as “acts of revenge against society.