8 Dead, 17 Injured as Knife-Wielding Attacker on Rampage in China

The attack occurred at Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in the evening at Yixing city of Jiangsu province, according to a statement from police in Yixing. The police authorities confirmed that people have indeed died in the attack.

Beijing:

Eight people have been reportedly killed and 17 others injured after a suspect wielding a knife attacked a vocational school in eastern China Saturday, police said. The former student of the school has been arrested according to the police. The attack occurred in the evening at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in the city of Yixing in Jiangsu province, police in Yixing said in a statement confirming casualties.

The suspect is a 21-year-old former student of the school who was supposed to graduate this year but failed his exams.

"He returned to the school to express his anger and commit these murders," police said, adding that the suspect has confessed.

In Yixing, police said emergency services are fully mobilized to treat the wounded and provide follow-up care for those affected by the attack.

Such lethal attacks with this number of casualties are quite rare, although violent knife crime is not unknown in China, whose history of limiting firearms ownership is well-known.

Earlier this week a 62-year-old used his small SUV to ram into a crowd of people in Zhuhai, killing 35 and leaving more than 40 wounded in the southern city.

And there have been several such attacks recently.

In October, a man fatally stabbed three people and injured 15 others in a knife attack at a supermarket in Shanghai. The month before that, a Japanese schoolboy was stabbed to death in the southern city of Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong.