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| China suffers new knife attack | |
| 2010-05-10 | |
| China has suffered another multiple stabbing when a man went on the rampage killing eight people including his wife and daughter. In the latest of a series of attacks that have raised concerns over the stability of Chinese society, Zhou Yezhong killed his wife and child, four neighbours and a migrant worker during the attack on Saturday evening before being arrested by police two hours later. No motive has yet been given for the killings in the southeastern province of Jiangxi which come after five stabbing attacks in as many weeks against schoolchildren that have deeply unnerved parents in China. The knife attacks have put China's government under pressure to increase security at schools and have pointed up the tensions and divisions in China caused by the ending of the social security net, official corruption and rising wealth inequalities. A week ago China suffered three school attacks on consecutive days. On April 30 a farmer armed with a hammer injured five children and a teacher at a primary school in the eastern province of Shandong before setting himself on fire. The previous day, an unemployed man slashed 29 children and three adults at a kindergarten in the eastern city of Taixing. That attack came a day after a 33-year-old teacher placed on sick leave for mental problems injured 15 students and a teacher in a knife attack at a primary school in southern China's Guangdong province. On the same day, authorities in Fujian province in the southeast announced they had executed a former doctor for stabbing to death eight children and injuring five others in a fit of rage on March 23 after he broke up with his girlfriend.
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