[24], On 3 June 2017, a terrorist vehicle-ramming and stabbing took place in London, England, UK. Most of the injured were schoolchildren. Published Oct. 6, 2022 12:17 p.m. PDT. Over the weekend, six people were killed and 14 injured after a knife-wielding man stabbed passersby on a pedestrian shopping street in the eastern Chinese city of Anqing. 18 May 2018. On Thursday afternoon, a nine-year-old girl out with her grandmother and grandfather was stabbed in the stomach and throat by a Muslim migrant screaming Allahu Akbar in central Gothenburg. Chinese law generally prohibits private possession of firearms (except for hunters with permits), and the Chinese government has stepped up its policing of illegal firearms in recent years. Dozens of passengers were killed and several others injured after a, In Siberia, a microscopic animal has been. [1] Knife crime poses security threats to many countries around the world. The suspect was a 40-year-old man surnamed Yu. [24][25] The suspect, former employee Satoshi Uematsu,[26] surrendered himself at a police station near the site of the attack shortly after. Last June, knife-wielding assailants killed nine policemen and 17 civilians at a police station in Lukqun Township in Xinjiang. Videos circulating on social media show wounded pedestrians lying on the pavement, covered in blood. [29], On 14 December 2012, a 36-year-old villager in the village of Chenpeng, Henan Province, stabbed 23 children and an elderly woman at the village's primary school as children were arriving for classes. Witnesses said that the men, who were mostly dressed in black, attacked people at random. [2] Illicit drug trade has been linked to the increasing incidence of knife crime. Join date : 2017-10-22. It was the second random attack on schoolchildren in the mainland in three weeks. After being caught Fang confessed to the crime. The spate of stabbings began in March of that year, when a man in Fujian province went on a slashing spree outside a primary school, killing 8 and injuring 5. In the past couple of decades, several Chinese firms have become enormously influential on tech, from Alibaba and Tencent to Huawei. [2] However, mass stabbing and similar terrorist attacks carried out by Islamic extremists have resulted in the rise of Islamophobia.[4]. A WHO report states that creating safe learning environment in schools is critical in preventing violence and knife crime among young people. [20] The perpetrators may feel victimized by stress due to the rapid social changes[20] in China during the last 10 years caused by the privatization and decreased social security of China's reform and opening period. The motive for the attack remains unclear. An estimated 100 million Chinese have varying degrees of mental illness but China has a fraction of the number of mental health professionals compared to developed countries., According to a report by The Straits Times, experts in China have pointed to anxieties caused by social upheaval and persistent inequality in explaining the attacks. And this tradition is not always considered evil. India News and Entertainment News here. by Peter Zeihan on March 3, 2023 In early 2020, reports of a virus sweeping across the globe hit the headlines. [52], On the afternoon of March 14, 2019, a man attacked students near the Guanghuadao Primary School and 17 students were injured[53], An attacker killed eight students and injured two others at an elementary school in central China on the first day of the new semester, police said Tuesday. Even with a record of mental illness among the people of China, an estimate puts the number at 100 million, availability of mental health professionals is quite limited. No country is surrounded by China, but 14 countries share a land border with China: Russian Federation Mongolia North Korea Vietnam Laos Myanmar India Bhutan Nepal Pakistan Afghanistan Tazikistan Kyrgyzstan Kazakhstan Fourteen countries in all. The suspect had taken revenge on society because of relationship frustrations, the police report said. A man in China carried out an attack on a school in Guangxi Province where his wife worked. In such attacks, sharp objects are thrust at the victim, piercing through the skin and harming the victim. He also said society was changing rapidly and that subsequent changes in policy were needed. On 15 June 2017, a bombing at a kindergarten in Feng County, Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, east China, killed at least eight people and injured 65 others. Copyright 2023. Also injured were five people - two boys, aged seven and 12, a seven-year-old girl and a couple in their 30s. [41], Four children were stabbed to death as they were walking to their school. On March 1, 2014, a group of eight male and female attackers wielding knives attacked a railway station at Kunming, . That's how the Chinese roll. Kunming officials, quoted by Xinhua, later said that evidence at the scene showed it was "a terrorist attack carried out by Xinjiang separatist forces". A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday that police found flags used by an outlawed separatist group from Xinjiang at the station after the attacks. [14] The law is aimed at reducing knife crimes especially among young people. The girl received serious knife wounds to her throat and stomach while the older woman was lightly wounded on. But schools are still coming under attack. Kindergarten Mass Stabbing Leaves 2 Dead in China. "I saw a person come straight at me with a long knife and I ran away with everyone," he said. The victims were found in 13 different locations in the James Smith Cree Nation and in the village of Weldon, according to the . President Xi urged "all-out efforts" to investigate the attack. Street fighting in Bakhmut but Russia not in control, Saving Private Ryan actor Tom Sizemore dies at 61, US lawyer jailed for murdering wife and son, The children left behind in Cuba's mass exodus, Xi Jinping's power grab - and why it matters, Snow, Fire and Lights: Photos of the Week. Some of the victims, including a. Deadly mass stabbings are rarer than mass shootings, but have happened around the world. On May 27, a 51-year old man went on a killing spree in the Japanese city of Kawasaki, located south of Tokyo. [2], In Scotland, knife crime is treated as a public health issue and a public funded initiative was launched to address the root cause of knife crimes. [56], On December 27, 2020, seven people were killed and seven others injured during a mass stabbing attack outside a school in Kaiyuan, in the Liaoning province. Institutions that are many decades behind the West in handling mentally disturbed patients are now being pressured to dramatically boost their capabilities, because Chinese families can no longer cope. The choice of schools for most of the attacks means they could be copycat crimes.[20][61]. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [15] In Scotland, there was a threefold increase in average sentence for carrying a knife in 2015 when compared to the data from 10 years ago. State-run Yunnan News said that the men were wearing uniforms when they stormed the railway station and that gunshots were heard after police arrived. [8], A World Health Organisation (WHO) report states that past victimisation is one of the risk factors causing violence. 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The World's Deadliest School Massacres A monument to those who helped children held hostage in the horrifying school massacre in Beslan, Russia. [31] All of the victims survived and were treated at three hospitals, though some were reportedly seriously injured, with fingers or ears cut off, and had to be transferred to larger hospitals for specialized care.