StylinRed | 04-29-2010 11:31 PM | Yet another Man in China attacks Kids Quote: Five children hurt in fresh attack on school in China
Five young children have been hurt at a school in north-eastern China after a man attacked them with a hammer before killing himself.
The incident was the third attack in China's schools in three days.
The man, said to be a local farmer, grabbed two children before setting himself on fire at the pre-school in Shandong province's Weifang city.
The children were pulled to safety, and all five - plus an injured teacher - were said to be stable in hospital.
China is reeling from a spate of apparent copy-cat attacks in schools.
On Thursday, 28 children - most of them aged around four - and three adults were attacked by an unemployed man wielding a knife at a nursery school in Jiangsu province, eastern China. Five of the children were taken to hospital in a critical condition.
And a day earlier, some 15 pupils and a teacher were wounded by a former teacher - who was on sick leave - at their primary school in Guangdong province.
Earlier on Wednesday, a doctor convicted of stabbing eight children to death in Fujian province in March was executed...
| http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8653230.stm Quote:
A man armed with a hammer and gasoline burst into an elementary school Friday morning, attacked five children with the hammer and then set himself on fire in yet another of the mysterious attacks on Chinese schools that have terrorized parents and children around the country.
| http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,6061427.story Quote:
Wielding a hammer, Mr. Wang struck five students and grabbed another two, then doused himself with gasoline and ignited it. Teachers managed to save the two children.
| http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/01/wo...a/01china.html
that makes 4 major ones in a month and 3 within 3days
wtf.. this sounds like the start to some sort of zombie movie; we're going to end up with mega thread with all these merged in
i think the news just said 4 of the children on Thursday attack (where 28 were stabbed) are dead, i wasn't really paying attention though |