Around 40 students and staff members of a primary school in China were stabbed by a security guard, official media reported on Thursday.
The incident happened at a school in China’s Guangxi province, state-run China Daily said in a brief report.
Knife attacks by disgruntled people have been taking place in different parts of
China in the past few years, reported news agency Press Trust of India.
The attackers targeted mainly kindergarten and primary schools besides public transport, the news agency reported.
All the victims, including teaching staff, were sent to hospital but were not in a life-threatening condition, authorities in Cangwu County, Guangxi region, said.
Schools in the region had only reopened in
May after being closed for months due to the coronavirus outbreak.
In November, a man climbed a kindergarten wall in southwest Yunnan province and sprayed people with a corrosive liquid, wounding 51 of them, mostly students.
Last September, eight schoolchildren died and two others were wounded in a “school-related criminal
case” in the central Hubei province, with a 40-year-old man arrested.
A knife-wielding man killed two people and wounded two others at a primary school in central Hunan province in April last year.
In April 2018, a man killed nine middle school students as they were returning home, in one of the deadliest knife attacks seen in China in
recent years.