Due to a recent spate of lethal attacks, many of which were attributed to people harbouring resentments toward society or struggling with untreated mental illnesses, China boosted school security.
Digital Desk: Police in southern China are
searching for a man who is thought to have attacked a kindergarten in the
Jiangxi province on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding six more.
The suspect, who is 48 years old, has the
last name Liu, according to a police report. There was no other information
provided in the brief announcement of the attack that took place early on
Wednesday in the province's Anfu County.
Due to a recent spate of lethal attacks, many
of which were attributed to people harbouring resentments toward society or
struggling with untreated mental illnesses, China boosted school security.
Since
it is illegal to carry guns in China, most of these attacks involve knives,
homemade explosives, or gasoline bombs. About 100 children and adults have
perished and hundreds have been injured in what seemed to be "lone
wolf" assaults over the past ten years. These attacks lacked a clear
cause, and the attackers, most of them were men and were either killed,
committed suicide, or were put on trial and executed.
Crimes
against youth resonate particularly loudly in China because to its persistently
low birth rate, which is partly due to decades of population control
initiatives.
