Knife attack-21yr old student creates panic in China!

S Venkateshwari
Knife attack-21yr old student creates panic in China!

A major incident took place in a business school in eastern china on saturday (16 november 2024). Eight people were killed and 17 others were injured in a knife attack at this business school. According to local police, the attacker is a former student. He has been arrested. According to Chinese media reports, the incident took place on saturday evening at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and technology located in Yixing city of Jiangsu province. police in Yixing issued a statement giving full details of the incident.

'He was upset due to failure, so he attacked'

The police told the media that the student who stabbed is 21 years old and is an alumnus of the same institute. He was to graduate this year, but he failed in the exam. Police say that he was upset since failing. On saturday, he came here to express his anger and started attacking students one after the other. The accused has confessed his crime.

Hospital is fully prepared to treat the injured

Police in Yixing said emergency services are fully activated to treat and care for the injured. Violent knife crime is not uncommon in china, where there is strict control over firearms, but cases of so many people being attacked and so many deaths at once are relatively rare.

Such cases have increased in the last few months

Earlier this week, a 62-year-old man killed 35 people and injured more than 40 people by driving his small SUV into a crowd in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai. There have been many such attacks in the last few months. In October, a man in shanghai attacked three people with a knife in a supermarket and killed 15 others. A month ago, a Japanese schoolboy was stabbed to death in the southern city of Shenzhen, adjacent to Hong Kong.

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