A knife attack left 39 injured Thursday, June 4, including many students, in a primary school in southern China, local authorities said.
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The incident occurred at 8:30 local time (00:30 GMT) in a village in the town of Cangwu, in the autonomous region of Guangxi, said the municipality in a statement posted on its website. “Thirty-seven students were slightly injured, and two adults suffered more serious injuries. All of them have been taken care of by hospitals and their lives are not in danger, ” she said.
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According to several media, which quote the authorities, the main suspect is a guard aged around 50. This type of attack targeting schools is not uncommon in China. In January 2019, 20 children were injured with a hammer in Beijing at their primary school. Two months earlier, a 20-year-old young man had killed a student and injured nine others and two teachers at a technical school in Yunnan, a province in the southwest of the country.
The Guangxi region had already been affected in January 2017 by an attack. A man injured 11 children with a kitchen knife in a preschool.
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