Knife-wielding woman injures 14 children in China kindergarten attack

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BEIJING, Oct 26 (Reuters) - A woman armed with a kitchen knife attacked children at the gate of a kindergarten in China's southwestern city of Chongqing on Friday, injuring 14 of them, police said.

The 39-year-old, identified only by her surname Liu, launched the attack as children returned from morning exercises about 9:30 a.m. (0130 GMT), police said on their official account on China's Twitter-like Weibo.

The victims were taken to hospital while guards and staff at the kindergarten restrained the attacker, said the police, adding that they were investigating. The statement did not give possible motives for the attack.

Violent crime is rare in China compared with many other countries, especially in major cities where security is tight, but there has been a series of knife and axe attacks in recent years, many targeting children.

Such attacks are often blamed on people with mental illness or who have personal grievances. Knives are most commonly used, because gun controls are extremely strict in China.

In September, China executed a man convicted of killing nine students and injuring 11 in a knife attack at a middle school in the central province of Shaanxi.





Somewhat proves that where there is a will to hurt others there is always a way to do it.

Knife attacks are really something else, stabbing somebody with a knife is very up and personal, I also imagine it to be quite awkward not least because its so inefficent. Takes more dedication and despiration to do that than a shooting.

We should just drop loaded guns and grenades into China per airplane so those bugmen can kill each other properly already and spare us the effort.

Kindergarten kids. What the fuck. If you're going to go after victims, at least go after victims who had the chance to grow up enough to become assholes.

A woman attacker? That's new. This another example of how gun control and No Notoriety do not further attacks from happening.

I remember reading about an attack in 2011 done by a woman: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Ooooo, a woman knifer, that seems very rare, especially for Asian countries.

miketheratguy wrote:

Kindergarten kids. What the fuck. If you're going to go after victims, at least go after victims who had the chance to grow up enough to become assholes.

Well there was this dude:
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and this guy:
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