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Chinese teen kills nine in knife attack: reports

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Chinese people look across a river to North Korea in 2010 in Dandong, Liaoning province. A teenager has been arrested after killing nine people and wounding four others in a knife attack in northeast China, state media reported Thursday

Chinese people look across a river …

A teenager has been arrested after killing nine people and wounding four others in a knife attack in northeast China, state media reported Thursday.

The 17-year-old, who was identified only by his surname Li, barged into the home of his girlfriend armed with a knife following an argument and killed two relatives of the girl, the Legal Daily said.

As he left his girlfriend's home in Liaoning province's Xinbin county, he stabbed six more people to death and wounded five, it said.

One of the injured died Thursday in hospital, the paper said.

Li was arrested near the scene of the attack, late on Wednesday night, and was taken into custody, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Police had nabbed him as he was preparing to jump from a building in an apparent suicide attempt, it added.

No other details were immediately available. Calls made to local authorities and police in Xinbin county went unanswered.

Violent crime has been on the rise in China in recent decades as the nation's economy has boomed and the gap between rich and poor has expanded at an alarming rate.

Experts say the increase in assaults shows that China is paying the price for focusing on more than 30 years of economic growth while ignoring problems linked to rapid social change.

Studies have described a rise in the prevalence of mental disorders in China, some of them linked to stress as the pace of life becomes faster and socialist support systems wither.

However, authorities stress that murder, which carries the death penalty, remains far less common than in most Western countries.

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I see.

[mox 298]

This wouldn't have happened if China had proper assault-knife laws.

[akihon 129]

same thing happened in Japan, where that one guy went around Akihabara stabbing people. with how densely populated Japan is, I think a gun would have been .. *shudder*

[natty bumppo 297]

same thing happened in Japan, where that one guy went around Akihabara stabbing people. with how densely populated Japan is, I think a gun would have been .. *shudder*

after the first shot ... people would have heard the noise and scattered

after the first stab ... people would not have heard the noise in a crowded environment and just kept going about their business

Edited August 2, 2012 by natty bumppo

[akihon 129]

after the first shot ... people would have heard the noise and scattered

after the first stab ... people would not have heard the noise in a crowded environment and just kept going about their business

oh I agree. still though .. scattering doesn't stop you from getting shot.

[Ban Hammer 13,400]

oh I agree. still though .. scattering doesn't stop you from getting shot.

moving targets are harder to hit.

[akihon 129]

last I checked, bullets travel faster than runners, especially on an automatic. Oh whatever.

[natty bumppo 297]

last I checked, bullets travel faster than runners, especially on an automatic. Oh whatever.

while the bullets may travel faster than people (with the exception of superman ... )

the firearm needs to be aimed so the bullet hits the target. a moving target makes it more difficult to get sight alignment with the target than a target that is still.

[Harsh_77 718]

China needs better background check for ppl before allowing them to buy a knife.

They should also ban the online purchase of the knife.

[Ban Hammer 13,400]

last I checked, bullets travel faster than runners, especially on an automatic. Oh whatever.

last i checked, no one disputed that bullets travel faster than someone running, nor are automatics the topic.

China needs better background check for ppl before allowing them to buy a knife.

They should also ban the online purchase of the knife.

anyone wanting to own a knife needs a license and a waiting period!