At least eight people have died and 17 others have been injured after a knife attack at a vocational training school in Yixing county, eastern China.
The event took place around 6:30 p.m. local time (11:30 a.m. Spanish peninsular time) this Saturday, when a 21-year-old former student named Xu He entered the premises to “vent his anger”as reported this Saturday in a statement by the Yixing Public Security Bureau on its official account on the WeChat social network.
According to the document, Xu would have wanted revenge for not having received his graduation diploma after having failed exams and due to his “dissatisfaction” with the remuneration he received as a trainee.
The attacker was arrested at the same place of the events and confessed to the crimes, the authorities point out, which They continue with the investigation and with the treatment of the injuredwhose status no further information has been disclosed at the moment.
This event occurs just days after at least 35 people died and another 43 were injured in Zhuhai after being hit by a vehicle in front of a sports center. whose driver was “dissatisfied” with the distribution of goods in his recent divorce.
Increase in attacks
In the last year there have been multiplied indiscriminate attacks on pedestrians in the Asian giant, usually perpetrated by attackers with a knife, but also attacks against crowds.
In May, a man armed with a knife attacked several people, leaving a balance of two dead and more than ten injured in the southern province of Yunnan. In 2023, an assault at a daycare center in Guangzhou also caused six deaths, and another road incident in the same province left six dead and 29 injured.
Over the last few years, multiple news stories about mass car accidents, assaults in schools and attacks with homemade bombs have given rise to a series of assaults with common features which the Chinese increasingly recognize.
These events are uncomfortable for China, whose official press regularly reports on the shootings in the United States. in a context of competition between both powersand contrast with the message from the authorities, who affirm that their country is “one of the safest in the world”, a perception until now shared by its inhabitants.
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