Eight killed in second mass attack in China in a week

Eight killed in second mass attack in China in a week

– A former student went on a knife rampage at a vocational college in eastern China, killing eight people and injuring 17, police said Sunday, the country’s deadliest killings in a decade. The general shocked Chinese society. The knife attack on Saturday evening took place at the Wuxi Vocational College of Arts and Technology in Yixing, a section of Wuxi city in the eastern province of Jiangsu. Police said that the accused was arrested from the spot and he confessed to the crime.Also on Saturday, authorities in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai said they had charged a 62-year-old man after a driver plowed his car into a crowd on Monday, killing 35 people and injuring 43. . about the mental health of Chinese society and whether recent high-profile attacks in other major cities may reflect deeper pressures from the slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy.At least six other high-profile knife attacks have been recorded across China this year. Police in Wuxi said the stabbing suspect was upset over not getting his graduation certificate and failing the exam. Zhuhai The suspect was reportedly upset over the terms of the divorce settlement. “According to the preliminary investigation, the suspect, surnamed Xu – male, age 21, 2024 graduate of the college – failed the exam and did not graduate. But others attacked the certificate.Also dissatisfied with his internship compensation,” the Yixing Public Security Bureau said in a statement.The recent flare-up of violence has sparked a heavily censored online debate about the economic slowdown and whether young people will find themselves worse off than earlier generations who benefited from China’s rapid growth. One online commentator said that the Wuxi attack appears to be A sense of entitlement for a generation that did not expect hardship,

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