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"China attacker kills 3 children, teacher" by Associated Press | August 4, 2010
BEIJING — A knife-wielding man went on a slashing rampage in a kindergarten in eastern China, leaving three children and one teacher dead, area residents reported today.
The unidentified assailant entered the school in a suburb of Zibo in Shandong Province at about 4 p.m. yesterday as parents were picking up their children, according to people living nearby.
About 20 children and staff were injured, two of the children seriously, they said.
China has suffered a spate of gory rampage attacks on schools and in public spaces this year, leaving dozens of people dead.
A woman in a restaurant opposite the Boshan District Experimental Kindergarten’s Jinfengyuan branch said the attacker was aged 27 or 28 and gained entry posing as a parent.
Police rushed to the kindergarten soon after the attack and officers transported some injured children to the hospital before ambulances had time to arrive, said the woman, who would give only her surname, Zhang....
Zhang and other area residents said the teacher died of her injuries this morning.
The Zibo killings came just two days after a man in Hebei Province went on a rampage at the wheel of his earthmover, smashing vehicles and buildings and leaving 17 dead.
Other recent mass killings include a May 12 attack on a kindergarten in the northern province of Shaanxi that left seven children and two adults dead and the wounding of 29 children at a kindergarten in Jiangsu Province in April.
The seemingly unrelated attacks have prompted calls for more attention to diagnosing serious mental illnesses.--more--"
