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Chini: 7:45pm On Dec 16, 2012
BEIJING (AP) — A man wielding a knife wounded 22 children and one adult outside a primary school in central China as students were arriving for classes on Friday, the police said.

The attack, in the village of Chengping in Henan Province, happened shortly before 8 a.m., said a police officer from Guangshan County, where the village is located.

The attacker, Min Yingjun, 36, was subdued by security guards and taken into custody by the police, said the officer, who declined to give her name, which is customary among Chinese civil servants. Guards have been posted at schools across China after a spate of attacks in recent years.

A Guangshan County hospital said there were no deaths among the nine students itted to the hospital, although two badly wounded children were transferred to better-equipped hospitals outside the county.

A doctor at Guangshan’s hospital of traditional Chinese medicine said that seven students had been itted there, but that none were seriously injured.

It was not clear how old the wounded children were, but Chinese primary school students are generally 6 to 11.

A notice on the Guangshan County government’s Web site confirmed the number of wounded and said an emergency response team had been set up to investigate the stabbings.

No motive was given for the attack, which resembled a string of similar assaults against Chinese schoolchildren in 2010 that killed nearly 20 and wounded more than 50. The most recent such attack took place in August, when a man broke into a middle school in the southern city of Nanchang and stabbed two students before fleeing.

Most of the attackers have been mentally disturbed men involved in personal disputes or unable to adjust to the rapid pace of social change in China, underscoring grave weaknesses in the antiquated Chinese medical system’s ability to diagnose and treat psychiatric illness.

In one of the worst attacks, a man described as an unemployed, middle-aged doctor killed eight children with a knife in March 2010 to vent his anger over a thwarted romantic relationship.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/world/asia/man-stabs-22-children-in-china.html?_r=0
http://www.chinilive.com/2012/12/another-tragedy-man-stabs-22-school.html

mallorca(m): 9:19pm On Dec 16, 2012
i cant believe my sef,so i finally make it atop smiley

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Okijajuju1(m): 9:19pm On Dec 16, 2012
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Re: Man Stabs 22 Children At Chinese Elementary School by Nobody: 9:19pm On Dec 16, 2012
Not Again.

Is this the Dec. 21 fever?
Re: Man Stabs 22 Children At Chinese Elementary School by Nobody: 9:20pm On Dec 16, 2012
First comment! Where are de conspiracy theorists
Feraz(m): 9:21pm On Dec 16, 2012
What's up with people taking out their anger on children these days

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Wendyslim(f): 9:21pm On Dec 16, 2012
Him dey craze? undecided undecided undecided
mallorca(m): 9:22pm On Dec 16, 2012
alexdidi: First comment! Where are de conspiracy theorists
am sorry ur 4th on d list,try hard next time

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blackbeau1(f): 9:23pm On Dec 16, 2012
So,they can't adjust to the pace of change and decide that killing a bunch of children will solve that.men,they are seriously messed up.
greatgod2012(f): 9:24pm On Dec 16, 2012
Crazy things happening everywhere, may God continue to protect us, our children, loved ones and you....... Amen.
REVOLUTNIS: 9:25pm On Dec 16, 2012
Parents are failing their generation
idinc(m): 9:26pm On Dec 16, 2012
OMG nt agn...psychos dis r kids 4 cryin out loud...kids!!!
mrkels(m): 9:26pm On Dec 16, 2012
Thank Goodness he wasn't with a riffle
Troll: 9:27pm On Dec 16, 2012
The World Is Going Crazy undecided
Signs Of The .......(I Don't Believe In That Hogwash Though) undecided

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Re: Man Stabs 22 Children At Chinese Elementary School by Nobody: 9:27pm On Dec 16, 2012
at least that crazed action may get this mad man a one way ticket to his execution.
Afam4eva(m): 9:27pm On Dec 16, 2012
Is this an olympic competition between the US and China? Olympics don finish na...

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ayoola2002(m): 9:27pm On Dec 16, 2012
Please what concern us with china? is like our is not serious anymore.

Their are more important topic that need to put at front page instead of china something. MOD be warn.
claremont(m): 9:28pm On Dec 16, 2012
I wonder if these crazed killers get some form of penile erec-tion from attacking defenceless children. It is only a crazed human beng that would attack an innocent child.

BTW, all those people blaming gun proliferation for the attack in America can as well campaign against knife proliferation in this current attack. Some people need to learn that a gun or a knife doesn't just kill people by itself, it requires a crazed person behind it. It is people that kill people.

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SisiKill1: 9:28pm On Dec 16, 2012
Mental Healthcare really needs to take top priority in many many countries.

Lord Have Mercy!!!
Thermythorpe(f): 9:28pm On Dec 16, 2012
OMG!! what has d world turned into?.. Not again.. Y all dis violence evrywhere... We have nt recovered frm d shock of Connecticut killings,why dis again? angry
Lordave: 9:29pm On Dec 16, 2012
mallorca: i cant believe my sef,so i finally make it atop smiley
alexdidi: First comment! Where are de conspiracy theorists
The both of you need to see T.B Joshua ASAP.

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Series22(m): 9:30pm On Dec 16, 2012
It happened in the U.S and China, trust Nigerians, they are fast learners. B4 the year runs out u must here this kind of attacks happening in Naija..
Wetin i dey even talk? BH don even attack schools 4 up north b4. (Smh violently)

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dangerzone: 9:31pm On Dec 16, 2012
ayoola2002: Please what concern us with china? is like our is not serious anymore.

Their are more important topic that need to put at front page instead of china something. MOD be warn.

Go back to KG mate,you are not making any sense

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haizeek(m): 9:31pm On Dec 16, 2012
Goldenheart(m): 9:32pm On Dec 16, 2012
the WORLD is another form of HELL n MEN are its DEMON!!!!

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NEROSKY(m): 9:32pm On Dec 16, 2012
that 1 dey..
Ace3: 9:32pm On Dec 16, 2012
What is this about people haunting kids?
Psylas(m): 9:34pm On Dec 16, 2012
KUNG FU grin
alaoeri: 9:37pm On Dec 16, 2012
If this happened in muslim dominated area come see name calling.

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pekelepekele(m): 9:37pm On Dec 16, 2012
Terrible things happening every Sunday
Re: Man Stabs 22 Children At Chinese Elementary School by Nobody: 9:39pm On Dec 16, 2012
here is what Morgan Freeman had to say about why there are so many of these senseless killings these days (which i think is very true):

[b]You want to know why. This may sound cynical, but here's why.
"It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single victim of Columbine? Disturbed people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he'll be ed as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody.

"CNN's article says that if the body count "holds up", this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer's identity? None that I've seen yet. Because they don't sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you've just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next.

"You can help by forgetting you ever read this man's name, and ing the name of at least one victim. You can help by donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun control as the problem. You can help by turning off the news."
[/b]

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Re: Man Stabs 22 Children At Chinese Elementary School by Nobody: 9:39pm On Dec 16, 2012
I don't knw wat is wrong with dis chnoko ppl even boko bois will have conscience not to unleash terror on children but here u have some left handed chinoko samurais missing their acient sword manner of warfare unleashing it on helpless children n blaming it on psych. Aluu recommended for dat guy joor.

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