The man, whose identity is unknown, stormed into the Central Primary School in Mingcheng township in Jilin province at 9:20 a.m. and targeted a class of first-grade pupils, mostly aged about 6 or 7.

Of the injured, five were boys and seven girls. They were rushed to a hospital where four were reported to be seriously hurt.

On Nov. 26, a man broke into a high-school dormitory in the central province of Henan and stabbed eight children to death in their sleep.

A bus driver stabbed 24 primary school children with a kitchen knife and kidnapped a 9-year-old girl at a primary school in eastern Shandong province in September.

The same month, a man with a knife and homemade bombs attacked 28 children in a kindergarten in the city of Suzhou, near Shanghai. No one was killed. In August, a janitor stabbed 17 at a Beijing kindergarten, killing one child.

And in October, police arrested a man accused of killing a 5-year-old boy and his teacher at a Beijing kindergarten.

The Japan Times Weekly: Dec. 11, 2004
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