A knife attack on a university campus in eastern China killed eight people and injured 17 on Saturday.
Police in the eastern city of Yixing, Jiangsu province, said a 21-year-old former student carried out a knife attack at the Wuxi Vocational College of Arts and Technology after failing exams, killing eight people while 17 were injured. The suspect, surnamed Xu, was detained on the spot and confessed to the attack, police said. He was motivated by “failing an exam, not receiving a graduation certificate, and dissatisfaction with internship compensation.”
Videos and photos online show injured people lying in the street after the attack while others rushed to help, according to social media.
The attack was the latest mass casualty incident in China, a country of 1.4 billion people with one of the lowest violent crime rates in the world, due in part to strict gun control and strong mass surveillance. On Tuesday thirty-five people lost their lives and 43 injured when a car hit people exercising at a sports centre in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai.
In September, three people died and 15 injured in a knife attack in Shanghai. In October, police arrested a 50-year-old man after a knife attack outside a primary school in Beijing that injured five people, including three children. The bus earlier crashed into a crowd of students and parents near a school in Tai’an city, Shandong province, killing 11 people and injuring 13.
