No fewer than six people, including three children, have been confirmed dead and one injured in a stabbing at a kindergarten in southern China, an official has disclosed.
According to a city administration spokesman, the attack happened on Monday in Lianjiang, Guangdong province.
‘The victims include one teacher, two parents and three students… and one suspect has been arrested,’ she told reporters.
Africa Today News, New York gathered that the incident took place at 7.40am (23:40 GMT on Sunday), and the suspect – a 25-year-old man with the family name Wu – was arrested 20 minutes later.
Police have classified the case as ‘intentional assault’, the report added.
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China has seen a number of stabbing attacks in schools in recent years.
In August 2022, three people were killed after an attack in southern Jiangxi province that also targeted a nursery school.
In another development, the international medical charity Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) has announced it is temporarily suspending operations at a hospital in Haiti after a group of armed men forcibly removed a patient and threatened staff members.
About 20 armed men invaded the hospital in Tabarre, close to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Thursday night, according to a statement released by MSF on Friday.
According to MSF, the men seized a patient with gunshot wounds ‘who was still in an operating room’ and ‘threatened to kill’ staff members.
‘We strongly condemn this incursion, which demonstrates once again the unprecedented level of violence currently raging in Port-au-Prince,’ the group said. ‘All trauma and burn care activities at the Tabarre hospital are currently suspended due to this incident.’
Haiti is struggling with high levels of gang violence, which worsened in the power vacuum caused by the assassination of President Jovenel Moise on July 7, 2021.