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12 pupils injured in Jilin school attack
(Agencies/chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2004-12-03 16:42

A man forced his way into a primary school in northeast China Friday morning and stabbed and injured 12 grade-one pupils, the latest in a wave of recent school attacks in China, Xinhua said.

The man, whose identity was unknown, was seized and the injured pupils taken to hospital near the school in Panshi, a city in northeast province of Jilin.

The injured, five male and seven female, are not in life-threatening conditions, and receive treatment at a local hospital.

Police say the man stabbed and injured people 10 years ago when he was under influence of mental disorder, but police say his mental conditions are unknown yet when he committed this school stabbing.

A series of attacks on schoolchildren in China in recent months have prompted schools in Beijing and other cities to recruit professional guards.

Last month, a man broke into a Chinese school dormitory in the central province of Henan and stabbed eight children to death in their sleep.

A bus driver stabbed 24 primary school children with a kitchen knife and kidnapped a nine-year-old girl at a primary school in eastern Shandong province in September.

The same month, a man with a knife and homemade bombs attacked 28 children in a kindergarten in the city of Suzhou, near Shanghai. No one was killed. In August, a janitor stabbed 17 at a Beijing kindergarten, killing one child.

Chinese police arrested a man accused of killing a 5-year-old boy and his teacher at a Beijing kindergarten in October.



 
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