China – A man has killed eight children and injured five others with a large knife in Eastern China which the local media are calling the Chinese School Massacre.

According to the Chinese media The man who is thought to be mentally ill was a former doctor and started to attack children randomly outside an elementary school.

witnesses say that the man had a large knife and attacked children at the Nanping City Experimental Elementary School shouting out “They won’t let me live. I won’t let anyone live”.

Xinhua News Agency said, a man was arrested by police after the attack that took place at 07:20 hours.

One of the PE teachers at the school said “those young lives just disappeared while I looked on.”

The weapon used in the attack is thought to be a 20-30 cm kitchen knife, six of the children attacked by the mentally ill man were pronounced dead at the scene.

The attack took place while some parents were still at the school dropping of their children.

A witness said one of the children was slaughtered right in front of his mum by the maniac man as she turned her back.

The attacker thought to be in his late 30’s or early 40’s had resigned from a community clinic, thought to be due to mental illness.

National Turk – China
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