8 dead, 17 hurt in China school knife attack

BEIJING — 

Eight radical were killed and 17 others injured Saturday successful a weapon onslaught astatine a vocational schoolhouse successful eastbound China, and the fishy — a erstwhile pupil — has been arrested, constabulary said.

The onslaught took spot successful the evening astatine the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology successful the metropolis of Yixing successful Jiangsu province, constabulary successful Yixing said successful a statement, confirming the toll.

Police said the fishy was a 21-year-old erstwhile pupil astatine the schoolhouse who was meant to postgraduate this twelvemonth but had failed his exams.

“He returned to the schoolhouse to explicit his choler and perpetrate these murders,” constabulary said, adding that the fishy had confessed.

The connection said that the fishy was besides apt motivated by “dissatisfaction with internship compensation.” The constabulary probe into the onslaught is ongoing.

Violent weapon transgression is not uncommon successful China, wherever firearms are strictly controlled, but attacks with specified a precocious decease toll are comparatively rare.

Earlier this week, a 62-year-old antheral killed 35 radical and injured much than 40 others erstwhile helium rammed his tiny SUV into a assemblage successful the confederate metropolis of Zhuhai.

There has been a spate of different attacks successful caller months.

In October, successful Shanghai, a antheral killed 3 radical and injured 15 others successful a weapon onslaught astatine a supermarket.

And the period before, a Japanese schoolboy was fatally stabbed successful the confederate metropolis of Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong.