BEIJING (AP) — A man wielding a knife wounded 22 children and one adult outside a primary school in central China as students were arriving for classes on Friday, the police said.

The attack, in the village of Chengping in Henan Province, happened shortly before 8 a.m., said a police officer from Guangshan County, where the village is located.

The attacker, Min Yingjun, 36, was subdued by security guards and taken into custody by the police, said the officer, who declined to give her name, which is customary among Chinese civil servants. Guards have been posted at schools across China after a spate of attacks in recent years.

A Guangshan County hospital administrator said there were no deaths among the nine students admitted to the hospital, although two badly wounded children were transferred to better-equipped hospitals outside the county.

A doctor at Guangshan’s hospital of traditional Chinese medicine said that seven students had been admitted there, but that none were seriously injured.

It was not clear how old the wounded children were, but Chinese primary school students are generally 6 to 11.

A notice on the Guangshan County government’s Web site confirmed the number of wounded and said an emergency response team had been set up to investigate the stabbings.

No motive was given for the attack, which resembled a string of similar assaults against Chinese schoolchildren in 2010 that killed nearly 20 and wounded more than 50. The most recent such attack took place in August, when a man broke into a middle school in the southern city of Nanchang and stabbed two students before fleeing.

Most of the attackers have been mentally disturbed men involved in personal disputes or unable to adjust to the rapid pace of social change in China, underscoring grave weaknesses in the antiquated Chinese medical system’s ability to diagnose and treat psychiatric illness.

In one of the worst attacks, a man described as an unemployed, middle-aged doctor killed eight children with a knife in March 2010 to vent his anger over a thwarted romantic relationship.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/world/asia/man-stabs-22-children-in-china.html?_r=0
http://www.chinilive.com/2012/12/another-tragedy-man-stabs-22-school.html

i cant believe my sef,so i finally make it atop

......

Not Again.

Is this the Dec. 21 fever?

First comment! Where are de conspiracy theorists

What's up with people taking out their anger on children these days

Him dey craze?

alexdidi: First comment! Where are de conspiracy theorists

am sorry ur 4th on d list,try hard next time

So,they can't adjust to the pace of change and decide that killing a bunch of children will solve that.men,they are seriously messed up.

Crazy things happening everywhere, may God continue to protect us, our children, loved ones and you....... Amen.

Parents are failing their generation

OMG nt agn...psychos dis r kids 4 cryin out loud...kids!!!

Thank Goodness he wasn't with a riffle

at least that crazed action may get this mad man a one way ticket to his execution.

Is this an olympic competition between the US and China? Olympics don finish na...

Please what concern us with china? is like our moderator is not serious anymore.

Their are more important topic that need to put at front page instead of china something. MOD be warn.

I wonder if these crazed killers get some form of penile erec-tion from attacking defenceless children. It is only a crazed human beng that would attack an innocent child.

BTW, all those people blaming gun proliferation for the attack in America can as well campaign against knife proliferation in this current attack. Some people need to learn that a gun or a knife doesn't just kill people by itself, it requires a crazed person behind it. It is people that kill people.

Mental Healthcare really needs to take top priority in many many countries.

Lord Have Mercy!!!

OMG!! what has d world turned into?.. Not again.. Y all dis violence evrywhere... We have nt recovered frm d shock of Connecticut killings,why dis again?

mallorca: i cant believe my sef,so i finally make it atop

alexdidi: First comment! Where are de conspiracy theorists

The both of you need to see T.B Joshua ASAP.

It happened in the U.S and China, trust Nigerians, they are fast learners. B4 the year runs out u must here this kind of attacks happening in Naija..
Wetin i dey even talk? BH don even attack schools 4 up north b4. (Smh violently)

ayoola2002: Please what concern us with china? is like our moderator is not serious anymore.

Their are more important topic that need to put at front page instead of china something. MOD be warn.

Go back to KG mate,you are not making any sense

Lol

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the WORLD is another form of HELL n MEN are its DEMON!!!!

that 1 dey..

What is this about people haunting kids?

KUNG FU

If this happened in muslim dominated area come see name calling.

here is what Morgan Freeman had to say about why there are so many of these senseless killings these days (which i think is very true):

[b]You want to know why. This may sound cynical, but here's why.
"It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single victim of Columbine? Disturbed people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he'll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody.

"CNN's article says that if the body count "holds up", this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer's identity? None that I've seen yet. Because they don't sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you've just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next.

"You can help by forgetting you ever read this man's name, and remembering the name of at least one victim. You can help by donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun control as the problem. You can help by turning off the news." [/b]

I don't knw wat is wrong with dis chnoko ppl even boko bois will have conscience not to unleash terror on children but here u have some left handed chinoko samurais missing their acient sword manner of warfare unleashing it on helpless children n blaming it on psych. Aluu recommended for dat guy joor.