Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Deadly knife attack at China school

A man stabbed three children and a teacher to death and wounded several others in a rampage at a Chinese primary school that refused to enroll his daughter, state media said.
The attacker killed himself by jumping from the building following Monday’s carnage at a school in Shiyan in the central province of Hubei, Five other students have been hospitalised, one of them seriously injured,
A female teacher, surnamed Liu, was stabbed in the chest and stomach and died of her injuries hours later. The attacker, named as  Chen Yanfu (43-year-old)jumped to death from the fifth floor after he was tackled by a teacher."
"The school's headmaster said Chen did not say a word after entering classrooms, just pulled out a knife and started stabbing anyone within reach," the news agency reported.
Chen was allegedly upset that his daughter was not allowed to register at the school.
Monday was the first day of the new school year in many parts of China.


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