Man kills 3 children at Chinese school, then jumps off building

[lostinblue 1,989]

Man kills 3 children at Chinese school, then jumps off building

By Jethro Mullen, CNN

updated 6:11 AM EDT, Mon September 1, 2014

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Hong Kong (CNN) -- The new school year in China began Monday with a horrifying attack.

A man stabbed to death three children at a primary school in central China and then committed suicide by jumping off a building, state media reported.

The attacker broke into Dongfang Primary School in Hubei province around 10:20 a.m., Xinhua news agency said, citing the local government.

Wielding a knife, the man stabbed eight students and a teacher before he took his own life, the report said.

Three of the students died, and the six other victims have been hospitalized, Xinhua reported. Two of the students are seriously hurt, it said.

Monday was the first day back at school after the summer vacation for most students in China.

The report only gave the man's surname of Chen. It said police are investigating the case.

The attack happened in Yunxi county, in the administrative region of Shiyan city.

A member of staff at the local education authority who answered a call from CNN said the only information available was in Xinhua's report. Police in Shiyan didn't answer repeated phone calls.

Xinhua said it wasn't immediately clear how the man got into the school campus.

China suffered a spate of knife and cleaver attacks targeting school children in 2010.

A number of measures were introduced at the time, including increased security at schools across the country and a regulation requiring people to register with their national ID cards when buying large knives.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/01/world/asia/china-school-attack/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

So if this man had to register his knife this would have been prevented?

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Man kills 3 children at Chinese school, then jumps off building

By Jethro Mullen, CNN

updated 6:11 AM EDT, Mon September 1, 2014

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Hong Kong (CNN) -- The new school year in China began Monday with a horrifying attack.

A man stabbed to death three children at a primary school in central China and then committed suicide by jumping off a building, state media reported.

The attacker broke into Dongfang Primary School in Hubei province around 10:20 a.m., Xinhua news agency said, citing the local government.

Wielding a knife, the man stabbed eight students and a teacher before he took his own life, the report said.

Three of the students died, and the six other victims have been hospitalized, Xinhua reported. Two of the students are seriously hurt, it said.

Monday was the first day back at school after the summer vacation for most students in China.

The report only gave the man's surname of Chen. It said police are investigating the case.

The attack happened in Yunxi county, in the administrative region of Shiyan city.

A member of staff at the local education authority who answered a call from CNN said the only information available was in Xinhua's report. Police in Shiyan didn't answer repeated phone calls.

Xinhua said it wasn't immediately clear how the man got into the school campus.

China suffered a spate of knife and cleaver attacks targeting school children in 2010.

A number of measures were introduced at the time, including increased security at schools across the country and a regulation requiring people to register with their national ID cards when buying large knives.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/01/world/asia/china-school-attack/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

So if this man had to register his knife this would have been prevented?

I bet exactly ZERO libruls will drive by this and blame the knife

[lostinblue 1,989]

I bet exactly ZERO libruls will drive by this and blame the knife

Perhaps knives and baseball bats will be required to be registered and locked up.

[Dakine10 5,452]

Knife violence can only be prevented by having more knives.

Perhaps they have a National Knife Association that can spend hundreds of millions to block such attempts at registration.

[lostinblue 1,989]

Knife violence can only be prevented by having more knives.

Perhaps they have a National Knife Association that can spend hundreds of millions to block such attempts at registration.

Perhaps they will see registration does not work.... In reality They will protest because it is a measure that would affect their lifestyle. Perhaps a background check that takes a year or more and a judge needs to decide if you have a reason to own a 6 inch knife...

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[Jacque67 7,328]

so he bought the knife before 2010?

[Karee 4,189]

I think knives have more than one purpose. Slicing food, making stuff, etc. etc. I have lots of knives in my house, but I didn't buy them for protection. A gun's primary purpose is to kill. See the difference?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I think knives have more than one purpose. Slicing food, making stuff, etc. etc. I have lots of knives in my house, but I didn't buy them for protection. A gun's primary purpose is to kill. See the difference?

If they saw the difference they wouldn't bring up silly tangents like this.

[Curmudgeon 227]

It's almost as if they posted this story, not because of some interest in or sympathy for those involved, but simply to make a small minded point about how dangerous knives are. It can't be that though, because that would be cynical and crass.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It's almost as if they posted this story, not because of some interest in or sympathy for those involved, but simply to make a small minded point about how dangerous knives are. It can't be that though, because that would be cynical and crass.

Aye. It would be.

[spookyturtle 9,465]

I didn't know there were blacks in Hong Kong. I mean the killer had to be black, right?

[Darnell 8,478]

news agency in hkg, spooks. event occurred in Mainland China.

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I blame this on the China One Child policy, as it's clear (to me) that something untoward happened to the man's child, earlier, and he flipped out because of it, damaging /killing the other one child-s there at the school.

Oh well, I not see any stoppage on this activity, going forward, as knives are easy to steal and a child is treated more than gold.

Edited September 1, 2014 by Darnell

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Knives are good for killing zombies.

Edited September 1, 2014 by Hail Ming!

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

I think knives have more than one purpose. Slicing food, making stuff, etc. etc. I have lots of knives in my house, but I didn't buy them for protection. A gun's primary purpose is to kill. See the difference?

what primary purpose does alcohol serve other than to alter your mood. It causes way more deaths per year than guns... Yet ?

Edited September 1, 2014 by The Nature Boy

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yet alcohol is neither a gun nor a knife.