The Daily Mail reports: "Two dead and ten injured as woman armed with a fruit knife launches stabbing rampage at Chinese primary school." Per the article, "Police have stated it was carried out by a 45-year-old woman, surnamed Pan, who had used a fruit knife during her vicious stabbing rampage. It is yet to be confirmed whether children are among the casualties." The woman has been arrested, but no motive has been given. The article adds:
The incident fits a disturbing pattern that has been seen cropping up around China in recent months, with a spate of knife attacks killing and wounding multiple civillians, including one attack that broke out at a hospital.
Earlier this month, a man stabbed two people to death and injured a further 21 at the hospital in the southern province of Yunnan.
In August last year, a man with a history of mental illness killed two people and wounded seven others after unleashing a knife attack in a residential district, also in Yunnan.
In July of the same year, six people, including three children, were murdered in a sickening kindergarten stabbing in the south-eastern province of Guangdong.
The mass killing saw a 25-year-old man with the surname Wu in Lianjiang arrested by police.
Firearms are banned in China but the country has seen at least 17 knife attacks in schools, colleges and universities since 2010, ten of which have happened in more recent years, between 2018 and 2023.
The majority of these cases have found perpetrators to be men that have expressed a grudge against society, although experts have said there may additional factors for what appears to be an increase in mass stabbings in China.
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