Students at a primary school in China were shocked after 22 of their classmates were stabbed by a man yesterday morning.
A spokesman for the Guangshan county government has said the the attacker “has been detained” by police after the incident.
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An anonymous official told AFP that there were no deaths in the attack:
“Twenty-two elementary school students were stabbed, so was an adult villager.”
The injuries resulting from the attack were not life-threatening, but still very traumatizing to the students involved.
Yahoo! News reports:
The state-run China News Service said a man attacked the students with a knife outside an elementary school, resulting in injuries which were “not life threatening”. It did not give the children’s exact ages.
China has seen several violent attacks against children over the past two years, including a spate of five incidents in 2010 which killed 15 children and two adults and wounded more than 80.
Security has been forced to be increased in China by authorities due to the assault, as well as research for their root causes.
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The site also states:
Violent crime has been on the rise in China in recent decades as the nation’s economy has boomed and the gap between rich and poor has expanded rapidly.
Studies have also described a rise in the prevalence of mental disorders, some of them linked to stress as the pace of life becomes faster and socialist support systems wither.
This incident has made news simutaneously as the shooting that killed 20 children and 6 adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Our prayers and condolences are with the families linked to both incidents.
SOURCE: Yahoo! News
