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提议： 发一些国内没有报道的消息（英文的），既可以增长知识，又可以学习外语 Man slashes 25 children at China school
Man slashes 25 children at China school
BEIJING - A man slashed 25 children with a kitchen knife on Monday at a grade school in eastern China and held a 9-year-old girl hostage for an hour before police captured him, the government said.
It was the third time in six weeks that a knife attack has been reported at a Chinese school or day-care centre. The earlier attacks left one child dead, injured a total of 42 people, and caused widespread concern about safety in Chinese schools.
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It isn't clear whether such violence is increasing or whether communist leaders are letting the entirely state-controlled media report more assaults in schools.
In the latest incident, in Ying County in Shandong province, the attacker was identified as the father of a girl at the school who had a quarrel with another local resident, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
Jia Qingyou, 37, went looking for the other resident at the school when he dropped off his own daughter. When he couldn't find the person, he began attacking students, the report said.
Xinhua didn't give any details of the quarrel or say how badly injured the students were. It also didn't say whether Jia's daughter or classmates were among the injured.
Jia took a girl hostage but 'after an hour of effort by police, she was successfully rescued', Xinhua said without elaborating.
China has suffered rising crime and violence as the government has loosened social controls over the past two decades.
In the worst recent school violence, an employee with a history of schizophrenia killed one student and slashed 14 others and three teachers on Aug 4 at a Beijing kindergarten.
In another recent attack, a 41-year-old man slashed 28 children at a day-care centre in the eastern city of Suzhou. Police said he was captured as he was preparing to ignite gasoline and homemade explosives.
None of the children was seriously injured.
Police said there was no indication why the man attacked the day-care centre, which mostly served children of migrant workers. -- AP
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2004-09-21 15:11:58
