A kindergarten stabbing in Guangdong province, in southeast China, claimed the lives of six individuals, three of whom were children.
An individual with the last name Wu, 25, was reportedly detained by police in Lianjiang. According to AFP, which quoted a local official, the other casualties include two parents and a teacher. As well as that, one individual gets hurt. Although they have not specified a potential motivation, police have described this incident as an "intentional assault."
At the same moment parents were leaving off their kids for summer courses on Monday at 7:40 local time (23:40 Sunday GMT), the attack took place. At 8:00, the guy was taken into custody.
The neighbourhood has been closed off, a business owner who works next to the kindergarten informed the news media.
A little more than 1.87 million people live in Lianjiang.
Outrage and astonishment were triggered by the footage of the incident as it proliferated on Chinese social media.
The stabbings also followed an unsettlingly predictable pattern. Although China forbids the use of firearms, there have been a number of knife assaults there in recent years. On one occasion, the assailant also injured a class of 50 children with chemical spray.
Since 2010, the BBC has recorded at least 17 knife incidents in educational institutions such as colleges and universities. There have been ten of them between 2018 and 2023.
Three people were killed and six others were injured when a knife-wielding attacker invaded a kindergarten in the southern Jiangxi province in August of last year.
Two children lost their lives and 16 others were hurt in a mass stabbing that occurred in Beiliu City, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, in April 2021.
In a knife assault at a kindergarten in Chongqing, southwest China, in October 2018, 14 kids were hurt.
The culprits in the majority of these incidents are male and have shown animosity towards society. Similar trends have been observed in mass murders in other nations, including the US and Japan. However, analysts speculate that there may be some other factors at play in China's apparent rise in mass stabbings.