In China, a student made a fatal attack on people with a knife, 8 died, 17 injured

China stabbing attack: A 21-year-old student killed 8 people in Wuxi city of China. At least eight people were killed and 17 others were injured in multiple knife attacks. Police in Yixing city confirmed the death toll, telling AFP that the attack took place in the evening at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in Jiangsu province. This incident comes a few days after 35 people were killed and 43 others were injured after a 62-year-old driver rammed his car into a crowd in the southern city of Zhuhai.

A man carrying a knife attacked people at Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in a district of Wuxi near Shanghai at around 6.30 pm. Police in Yixing said in a statement that the suspect, identified as a 21-year-old man who graduated from college this year, was arrested at the school.

Crowd crushing incident in the southern city of Zhuhai
The stabbing came just days after a man drove a vehicle into a crowd at a sports center in the southern city of Zhuhai, killing at least 35 people, the deadliest known violent attack in China in a decade . Authorities immediately began censoring information and comments about the attack, which also injured at least 43 people. The driver stabbed himself and is in a coma in hospital, police said. Violent incidents targeting civilians under police surveillance are rare in China, but there has been a long string of attacks in the past year.

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