At least six peopleincluding three children, have been killed and one remained wound in a knife attack occurred in a kindergarten a Lianjiangin the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, in China. The news was disclosed by a spokesman for the city government, and according to the broadcaster China News Network it happened around 7:40 local time (1:40 in Italy). According to reconstructions, the victims are “a teacher, two parents and three students” and a “suspect 25enne he has been arrested”.
The police are investigating and at present they have not been provided details on the identity of the victims, while the surname and age of the perpetrator are currently known. The People’s Republic of China is not new to this type of attacks e intentional attacks directed against educational institutions. In the’last August a man had broken into a kindergarten in the southeastern province of Jiangxi killing three people and wounding six others, while in theApril of 2021 two children were killed and 16 others injured in an assault on Beiliu City, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. In October 2018, however, 14 children were injured in a knife attack in a nursery Chongqing (south west of the country).
The legislation China on firearm ownership is, unlike that of the United States, particularly restrictive. For this reason, most attacks of this kind are conducted through the use of knives. More than ten years ago, the then prime minister Wen Jiabao had delivered a speech on television, following a new wave of attacks, to promise a better security in schools and other efforts to solve the problem.
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