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Children stabbed in Chinese school attack BEIJING, Tuesday (Reuters) A Chinese bus driver stabbed 25 primary school children, wounding them in their arms and faces, in the third attack of its kind in less than two months, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday. The 37-year-old man stabbed the children with a kitchen knife and kidnapped a nine-year-old girl at the No. 1 Experimental Primary School in Juxian county, eastern Shandong province, on Monday, Xinhua said, quoting police. He was later arrested and the hostage freed. "According to a preliminary interrogation, (the attacker) fought with a resident and was seeking revenge. Failing to find the resident, he attacked the children in the nearby school." |
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