Police release details on children's attacker

Knife wielder's assault influenced by preacher's 'doomsday' prophecies

Police in Henan province on Tuesday gave a detailed account of how the confessed knifeman Min Yongjun had been driven by "doomsday" rumors to carry out a frenzied attack on children.

Twenty-three elementary-school children and an elderly woman were wounded in the attack last week. None of them is in critical condition.