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China executes man who slashed children
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-11-25 10:06 A man who slashed 25 children
with a kitchen knife at a grade school in eastern China was executed Wednesday,
the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Liu Jun, the victim
of the school atrocity is still in hospital.
[sohu] | Jia Qingyou, 36, had appealed his
sentence at the Shandong High Court, but it upheld the original ruling, saying
the Sept. 20 crime was "especially cruel and the results were especially
serious," Xinhua reported.
The Lu County First
Experimental Primary School, where the tragedy occured.
[sohu] | Jia also held a 9-year-old girl hostage
for an hour before he was captured by police.
Xinhua earlier said Jia was the father of a girl at the school in Ying
County. He had a quarrel with another local resident and looked for the person
at the school when he dropped his daughter off.
The house
of the criminal Jia Qingyou [sohu] | When he
couldn't find the person, he began attacking the children with a kitchen knife,
Xinhua said. Twenty-five children were wounded in the attack.
"The method of committing the crime was especially vile and caused great harm
to society," the high court was quoted as saying in its Nov. 4 ruling.
In the worst recent school violence, an employee with a history of
schizophrenia killed one student and slashed 14 children and three teachers on
Aug. 4 at a Beijing kindergarten.
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