China: Man stabs/wounds 22 children and one adult outside of a school

[The Franchise]

http://news.ca.msn.com/world/china-s...schoolchildren

A knife-wielding man injured 22 children and one adult outside a primary school in central China as students were arriving for classes Friday, police said, the latest in a series of periodic rampage attacks at Chinese schools and kindergartens.

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

The attacker, 36-year-old villager Min Yingjun, is now in police custody, said the officer, who declined to give her name, as is customary among Chinese civil servants.

A Guangshan county hospital administrator said the man first attacked an elderly woman, then students, before being subdued by security guards who have been posted across China following a spate of school attacks in recent years. He said there were no deaths among the nine students admitted, although two badly injured children had been 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, but that none were seriously injured.

Neither the hospital administrator nor the doctor would give his name.

Children likely between 6-11 years old

It was not clear how old the injured children were, but Chinese primary school pupils are generally 6-11 years old.

A notice posted on the Guangshan county government's website confirmed the number of injured and said an emergency response team had been set up to investigate the attacks.

No motive was given for the stabbings, which echo a string of similar assaults against schoolchildren in 2010 that killed nearly 20 and wounded more than 50. The most recent such attack took place in August, when a knife-wielding 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 incidents, 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.

[Mi_chief_fan]

Originally Posted by listopencil

From then article:

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


Is nearly twenty dead people enough for you?

From the same article:

He said there were no deaths among the nine students admitted, although two badly injured children had been transferred to better-equipped hospitals outside the county.

So, in this particular incident, NOBODY was killed.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by Mi_chief_fan

From the same article:

He said there were no deaths among the nine students admitted, although two badly injured children had been transferred to better-equipped hospitals outside the county.

So, in this particular incident, NOBODY was killed.

That's not my contention. The fact is that people were killed by knives in a stabbing spree perpetrated against children. There have been several of these attacks. We'd do more of a service to our kids to find out why these attacks happen than react primarily to the choice of weapon.

[Molitoth]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Typical. The US does something, and China immediately produces a low quality imitation.

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by DaFace

I hate you for making me laugh about something like this.

In my defense, I wouldn't have gone there if it wasn't a really funny joke.

[FlaChief58]

The end is near

[FlaChief58]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Typical. The US does something, and China immediately produces a low quality imitation.

[Demonpenz]

IKUT YU has been detained for questions.

[Mi_chief_fan]

Originally Posted by listopencil

That's not my contention. The fact is that people were killed by knives in a stabbing spree perpetrated against children. There have been several of these attacks. We'd do more of a service to our kids to find out why these attacks happen than react primarily to the choice of weapon.

Agreed, but also not what I was contending. She called this incident a mass killing when in fact, nobody was killed.

[Crush]

Originally Posted by Flachief58

The end is near

They ran out of rock. That is why the calendar abruptly ended.

[CrazyPhuD]

Originally Posted by listopencil

From then article:

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


Is nearly twenty dead people enough for you?

BTW here's the fuller info on those attacks. At least you can't fault the chinese judicial system for moving too slowly....

Following a quick trial, Zheng Minsheng was executed about one month later on April 28.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Ch...school_attacks

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by Demonpenz

IKUT YU has been detained for questions.

Delicious

[KChiefer]

Originally Posted by listopencil

From then article:

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


Is nearly twenty dead people enough for you?

At least it took a year to reach twenty with knives, not a period of recess or a movie preview.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by Mi_chief_fan

Agreed, but also not what I was contending. She called this incident a mass killing when in fact, nobody was killed.

Yup, true. I'm a little on edge and probably still in a bit of shock from the school shooting. I guess I'm still lumping a lot of these attacks together, trying to make peace with the whole thing. She's probably doing the same thing.

[Mi_chief_fan]

Originally Posted by listopencil

Yup, true. I'm a little on edge and probably still in a bit of shock from the school shooting. I guess I'm still lumping a lot of these attacks together, trying to make peace with the whole thing. She's probably doing the same thing.

No worries, I know you mean well. You'd be surprised at how closely we agree on this.

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