Man stabs 22 children at China primary school

[baloo]

Was it a full moon or something ? Or mahbe the Mayans are right but we're just going to kill each other off slowly instead of the world ending in one big bang.

Man stabs 22 children at China primary school

BEIJING: A man stabbed 22 primary school students in a knife attack in China on Friday, officials said, the latest in a series of assaults.

The attacker "has been detained", said a spokesman for the Guangshan county government in the central province of Henan, where the stabbing happened.

"Twenty-two elementary school students were stabbed, so was an adult villager" but none of the victims died, the official, who declined to give his name, told AFP.

The state-run China News Service said a man attacked the students with a knife outside an elementary school, resulting in injuries which were "not life threatening". It did not give the children's exact ages.

China has seen several violent attacks against children over the past two years, including a spate of five incidents in 2010 which killed 15 children and two adults and wounded more than 80.

The assaults have forced authorities to increase security around schools and led to calls for more research into their root causes.

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 rapidly.

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

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

- AFP/de

[T2K]

Pandora's box on this matter was opened years ago.

Instead of quietly offing themselves, nutjobs want to force others to "feel their pain". It will continue, in various forms and countries. This is part of our world now, sadly.

[BoD]

Which tends to make me wonder if he had access to guns, whether or not there would be 22 dead children at a China primary school.

[daffodil]

Which tends to make me wonder if he had access to guns, whether or not there would be 22 dead children at a China primary school.

This.

[T2K]

Maybe so. Although over 22 people have already been killed by knives / hammers / cleavers in various school attacks in China in the past couple of years, I believe. I am sure the victims' families take no comfort in the methods used. Nutjobs attacking places they consider defenseless is the common factor.