Eight killed and 17 injured after knife attack at vocational school in China
The Hindu“Eight people were killed and 17 others injured after a stabbing attack at a vocational school in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi on Saturday night,” local police said. “The attack occurred at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in Yixing county at around 18:30 local time on Saturday,” the Yixing police said in a statement. This is the second deadly attack within a week after a man drove his car into people at a sports facility in the southern city of Zhuhai, leaving 35 people dead and injured 43 others. Police said at the time that the suspect had personal financial disputes and came to Shanghai to “vent his anger.” The same month, a Japanese schoolboy died after being stabbed on his way to school in the southern city of Shenzhen.