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Man Stabs Two Primary School Kids To Death
Man Attacks School Students With Knife
Students at the entrance to a primary school in Shanghai’s central Xuhui district on Thursday was reported to have stabbed the students with knife leading to their death.
The 29-year-old man attacked three male students and one female parent with a vegetable knife around 11:30 am (0330 GMT), the Xuhui branch of the Shanghai police said on its official Weibo account.
The victims of the incident were rushed to hospital where two of the students died, and further stated that the third student and the parent were not in a life-threatening condition.
The man, who was arrested at the scene, was unemployed and angry at society, the police said.
A video circulated on Chinese social media platform Weibo showed people tying up the attacker with rope on a roadside pavement.