{"id":4685,"date":"2010-03-23T14:49:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T12:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=4685"},"modified":"2010-03-23T15:04:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T13:04:37","slug":"chinese-man-kills-8-children-school-attack-78394874","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/chinese-man-kills-8-children-school-attack-78394874\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese man kills eight children in school knife attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"font-size: 1.5em;\">China &#8211; 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.<\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4686\" style=\"width: 380px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4686 \" title=\"China school masacre - nationalturk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/China-school-masacre-nationalturk-280x188.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by - ASSOCIATED PRESS\" width=\"380\" height=\"288\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mother who is supported by security officials after her child was killed by the maniac man - Photo by - ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>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.<\/h2>\n<p>witnesses say that the man had a large knife and attacked children at the Nanping City Experimental Elementary School shouting out \u201cThey won\u2019t let me live. I won\u2019t let anyone live\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Xinhua News Agency said, a man was arrested by police after the attack that took place at 07:20 hours.<\/p>\n<p>One of the PE teachers at the school said &#8220;those young lives just disappeared while I looked on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The attack took place while some parents were still at the school dropping of their children.<\/p>\n<p>A witness said one of the children was slaughtered right in front of his mum by the maniac man as she turned her back.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker thought to be in his late 30&#8217;s or early 40&#8217;s had resigned from a community clinic, thought to be due to mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>National Turk &#8211; China<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 6)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese man kills eight children : China &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,118,14],"tags":[2381,5830,5832,5829,5833,5831,5828,5835,5836,5834,5837],"class_list":["post-4685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-world","tag-china","tag-chinese-man-kills-8","tag-chinese-man-kills-8-children","tag-chinese-man-kills-eight","tag-chinese-school-attack","tag-chinese-school-killing","tag-chinese-school-massacre","tag-east-china","tag-east-china-school-attack","tag-eastern-china","tag-nanping-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}