Six people were killed and one injured in an early morning stabbing at a Kindergarten in Southern China.
According to a city administration spokeswoman, the attack happened on Monday in Lianjiang, Guangdong province.
She said the victims include one teacher, two parents and three students… and one suspect has been arrested.
Police have classified the case as “intentional assault”.
The incident was the top-trending discussion on China’s social media platform Weibo, with 130 million views as of 12.20pm (04:20 GMT).
China has seen a number of stabbing attacks in schools in recent years, despite government efforts to improve security.
Last August, three people were killed after an attack in southern Jiangxi province that also targeted a nursery school.
Two children were killed and 16 others were injured in April 2021 when a knife-wielding man entered a kindergarten in southern China.
A knife-wielding attacker wounded 37 pupils and two adults at a primary school in southern China in June of the previous year.
And in November 2019, a man climbed a kindergarten wall in southwest Yunnan province and sprayed people with a corrosive liquid, injuring 51 of them, mostly students.
The same year, eight schoolchildren died and two others were wounded in a “school-related criminal case” in the central Hubei province, with a 40-year-old man arrested.
And in April 2018, a 28-year-old man killed nine college students and injured 12 others outside their school in the northern province of Shaanxi.
The attacker later said he acted out of revenge after being harassed by a student at the same school.
