It’s not just American kids at risk, it seems. Today there was also an attack on elementary school kids in central China. A 36 year old man used a knife to attack teachers and students outside a school in Hunan province.
From The Los Angeles Times:
Friday’s attack occurred at about 7:40 a.m. as children were arriving outside the gate of Chenpeng Village’s Wanquan Elementary School. The suspect, Min Yingjun, 36, allegedly slashed an elderly woman as well as the children. Local propaganda officials said later that Min had a psychological illness.
Pictures uploaded to the Internet by bystanders show family members carrying young children with bandages on their heads. The local reports state that four seriously wounded children were transferred to other hospitals for intensive care.
There isn’t much information to find, but it doesn’t appear that any of the victims were killed.
More to come as information becomes available.
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Children should not be the focus of attacks. This is just wrong. Life is precious, and evil needs to just take itself out in the woods and do to it’s self what it wanted to do to the kids.
Yes. We were watching BBC News and first got confused about a sudden mention of a knife. But sadly it was another case. Holy crabs, like not enough stuff happened in 2012 already.
There seems to be more confusion going around, this story was also getting mixed up with one about an ax attack at an elementary school in 2010 that left three children dead.
It’s been a fuck of a year all the way around the globe.
So sad. I’ve seen a few people holding this up as an example that guns aren’t the problem, people are, but they seem to be missing that as horrific as this is, no one died. We can never eliminate all tragedies, but we can damn sure try to limit the damage.
Exactly. I would never try to play down how horrible it must have been for those kids and their parents, but none of those parents will be burying a child a week and a half before Christmas.
There is a worldwide problem with violence, but we seem to be the only country hell bent on having the highest body count.
Slightly more information, via The Washington Post:
There were no deaths from this attack, and only two children had injuries serious enough to require transport to a better equipped hospital.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/22-children-1-adult-injured-in-knife-attack-outside-central-china-primary-school/2012/12/14/feac17e6-45be-11e2-8c8f-fbebf7ccab4e_story.html