CHINA: A man forced his way into a primary school in north-east China yesterday and stabbed and injured 12 pupils, the latest in a wave of recent school attacks in China, news agency Xinhua said.
The man, whose identity is unknown, was seized and the injured pupils taken to hospital near the school in the north-east province of Jilin, the agency said. A series of attacks on schoolchildren in China in recent months have prompted schools in Beijing and other cities to recruit professional guards.
Last month, a man broke into a Chinese school dormitory in the central province of Henan and stabbed eight children to death.
A bus driver stabbed 24 primary school children with a kitchen knife and kidnapped a nine-year-old girl at a primary school in eastern Shandong province in September.
The same month, a man with a knife and home-made bombs attacked 28 children in a kindergarten in the city of Suzhou, near Shanghai. No one was killed.
In August, a janitor stabbed 17 at a Beijing kindergarten, killing one child.
Chinese police arrested a man accused of killing a five-year-old boy and his teacher at a Beijing kindergarten in October. (Reuters)