AT LEAST eight people have been killed and 17 others injured after a man went on a stabbing spree at a school in China.
It comes just days after the deadliest mass attack in the country in a decade killed 35 people.
Police respond following a stabbing attack at vocational college in Yixing, Wuxi city, Jiangsu, ChinaReuters
Police apprehend a person following a stabbing attack at vocational college in Yixing, Wuxi city, JiangsuReuters
Cops said that a 21-year-old man is believed to have carried out the attack in Yixing City in China’s Jiangsu province.
He is said to be a former student at the Wuxi Vocational College of Arts and Technology where the attack occurred.
Police said the suspect – identified only by his family name, Xu – graduated from school earlier this year and was angry about not receiving his graduation certificate.
The Yixing Public Security Bureau added that the student was also said to be unhappy with his internship pay.
He was soon arrested after which he confessed to the killings.
Last week, 35 people were tragically killed and 43 were injured after a driver fuming about his divorce rammed his SUV into a crowd.
Initial police reports said the sick man circled the sports complex several times and drove down exercisers after he became dissatisfied with the division of property in a divorce.
The 62-year-old driver, with the surname Fan, then stabbed himself in the neck in an act of self-harm and fell into a coma after the attack, Global Times reports.
Video published on Chinese social media shows bodies lying on the ground in pools of blood and lost shoes lying across the asphalt.
Later, police and emergency services could be seen next to the car shining a torch into the driver’s seat after it was pulled over.
Those who dodged the speeding motor bravely tended to the people who had been hit – but 27 ambulances were still needed to treat the injured.
Videos were posted online but were quickly censored by Chinese authorities.
A string of violent attacks in recent months have grappled the nation.
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