Some brutal mass-murders of young schoolchildren have been happening in China.
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Seven Children Killed in School Attack in China
By EDWARD WONG and MARK McDONALD
BEIJING — Seven kindergarteners and a teacher were stabbed to death and 12 people were injured on Wednesday in an attack at a school in northern China, according to the state news agency Xinhua.
The attack was one of the deadliest in a bizarre series of attacks on Chinese schoolchildren by apparent lunatics wielding knives and hand tools.
A local man identified as Wu Huanmin, 48, used a kitchen cleaver in the attack on Wednesday, Xinhua said. He killed five boys, two girls and a female teacher, then left the school, returned home and committed suicide, according to provincial security officials.
Eleven pupils and one adult were wounded and taken to a hospital in the city of Hanzhong. A nurse answering the phone at the hospital said most of the victims had critical wounds to their heads.
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The first of the recent wave of attacks took place on March 23, when Zheng Minsheng, 42, stabbed eight primary school students to death in Fujian Province, on China’s eastern coast. After a speedy trial, Mr. Zheng was executed on April 28, the same day that 16 children and their teacher were attacked at a primary school in the southern province of Guangdong.
The following day, in the city of Taixing, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, 29 kindergarten pupils and three adults were injured by an attacker with a knife Protesting parents took to the streets chanting, “We want the truth! We want our babies back!”
The day after that, Xinhua reported, five kindergarteners and a teacher were injured by a man in Shandong Province, also in eastern China. The man beat the five children with a hammer, then doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire with two other children in his arms. The attacker died.
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Are these isolated acts by a few disturbed individuals?
Or do you see any order to the killings?
Have there been many more than those that have broken into media attention?
Do you think attacks on schoolchildren would be any more frequent if China had less-strict gun regulations?