At least 8 people killed in mass stabbing in Yixing – DW – 11/16/2024

Eight people died in a stabbing attack in the eastern Chinese city of Yixing on Saturday, police said in a statement. 17 more people were injured.

The attack took place at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in Jiangsu province.

Authorities determined that the suspect was a 21-year-old student.

AFP news agency quoted police as saying he had been arrested.

Police say suspect was angry about academic failure

The student was supposed to graduate this year but failed the exams.

“He returned to school to express his anger and commit these murders,” police said in a statement, adding that he confessed to the crimes.

Police said emergency services were fully mobilized to treat the injured and provide care to those affected by the attack.

The incident followed a hit-and-run incident in the southern city of Zhuhai in which thirty-five people were killed and 43 injured when a car crashed into a group of people outside a sports centre.

China has also seen other attacks in recent months. In October, a man killed three people and injured 15 others in a stabbing attack at a supermarket in Shanghai.

And a month earlier, a Japanese student was fatally stabbed in the southern city of Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong.

mm/dj (AFP, Reuters)