Eight people were killed and 17 others injured in a stabbing by a 21-year-old student in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi on Saturday night. The incident comes just days after a hit-and-run in which thirty-five people were killed when a car plowed into a group of people outside a sports center in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, police and police said. 43 other people in a statement. They were injured.
Yixing city police confirmed the death toll and told AFP that the attack took place in the afternoon at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in Jiangsu province. Police said the attacker was a former student of the school, who was set to graduate this year, but failed the exam. Police said emergency services are in full operation to treat the injured and care for those affected by the attack.
Earlier, a 62-year-old man had rammed his car into a crowd in Juhai. 35 people were killed and another 43 injured in this incident. According to an AFP report, preliminary investigation revealed that the accused, identified by his surname Fan, was dissatisfied with the division of assets after divorcing his wife and was suffering from mental stress.
According to a witness Chen, people go out for walks in the morning and afternoon on the track built around the stadium. Recalling the incident on November 11, he said that I had just completed my third lap when suddenly a car moved quickly onto the track and crushed many people, I managed to save my life by jumping to the side.