Man Kills Eight at Chinese High School
BEIJING - A man with a knife broke into a high school dormitory and killed eight students in the deadliest of a series of knife attacks at Chinese schools in recent months, the government said Friday.
Police were searching for the man following the attack late Thursday at the No. 2 High School in the city of Ruzhou, which also injured four students, the official Xinhua News Agency said. It didn't give a possible motive but said police believe they know the man's appearance.
The attacker broke into the dormitory at 11:45 p.m. and "chopped eight people to death and four to injury," Xinhua said. It had said earlier that the attack in central China took place Friday morning.
No one was available for comment at the Ruzhou police headquarters.
It was the fourth knife attack reported since August at a Chinese school or day care center. The earlier assaults left one child dead and a total of 42 people injured.
The reason for the surge in knife assaults isn't clear.
Could it have been a fanactical member of the National Knife Association, wielding an assault blade? Perhaps China needs a "Knife Free School Zone" policy? We'll know for sure when the Michael Moore movie comes out.