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A Chinese man who was brandishing a knife attacked nursery students at Pingxiang City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Wednesday afternoon. He injured 11 pupils who were rushed to the hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening wounds.
Xinhua News Agency reported that the man climbed a wall to enter the school. The knife-wielding man told police he came to the nursery to pick up his son.
Growing Knife Attack Incidents
Although the suspect is being held by the local police, he has not divulged his reason for the knife attack. The incident is one of the growing number of attacks on Chinese children.
Among the past incidents involving children was the wounding in February of 10 kids in Haikou, Hainan Province, with the suspect taking his own life after the incident. A man stabbed three children and a teacher, who all died, and injured others in 2014 when the school refused to accept his daughter.
A year earlier, six kids outside a school in Shanghai were slashed by a man. The six kids were among the 11 victims of the man. Meanwhile, in Tianxing City, Jiangsu Province, the court sentenced 47-year-old Xu Yuyuan for the stabling in April 2010 of 29 school children and three teachers.
Beefed Up School Security
In 2010, for three straight days, there were attacks that hit schools which resulted in the Ministry of Education beefing up security in school campuses and banning strangers from entering its premises. To fight the attacker Beijing police distributed long poles with prongs for use by school security guards, CNN reported.
School workers and teachers were taught how to defend themselves after the April 2010 school attack. Buyers of big knives were ordered by the Chinese government to register.
