Six people killed in a stabbing attack on a Kindergarten in China

Six people, including three children, were killed in a stabbing attack at a kindergarten in southern China, local authorities revealed.

A spokeswoman for the city government said that the stabbing occurred around 7:40 a.m. on Monday in Lianjiang in Guangdong province.

“The victims include one teacher, two parents and three students… and one suspect has been arrested,” she told the AFP news agency.

State-run tabloid Global Times reported that the attacker used a knife to carry out the attack and the police authorities arrested him 20 minutes later.

According to the statement, The police authorities opened an investigation into the incident and the suspect, a 25-year-old man surnamed Wu, is being interrogated.

The incident sparkled nationwide outrage and was the most discussed topic on the social media platform Weibo, with 130 million views as of 12.20pm.

Despite the consistent government efforts to improve security,  China has seen many cases of stabbing attacks in schools in recent years. 

Last August , three people were killed in an attack on a nursery school in Southern Jiangxi.

In April 2021, two children were killed and 16 others injured after a knife-wielding man carried out an attack on a kindergarten in Southern China.

In June of the previous year, 37 students and two adults were wounded after a man carrying a knife attacked a primary school in southern China.

In November 2019, an attacker climbed a kindergarten wall in southwest Yunnan province and sprayed people with a corrosive liquid, harming 51 of them, mostly students.

In the same year, eight schoolchildren and two others were  wounded in an attack carried out by a 40 year old man in the central Hubei province.

In April 2018, a 28-year-old man killed nine college students and injured 12 others in front of their school in the northern province of Shaanxi.