What’s new: A kindergarten attack has left six people dead and one injured in Lianjiang, South China’s Guangdong province, with at least one child among the casualties, local officials told Caixin.
On Monday morning, Lianjiang police issued a statement saying they had arrested the suspect — a 25-year-old man surnamed Wu, who is a native of the area.
The “intentional assault” that took place in Hengshan town at 7:40 a.m. is still under investigation, the statement said, without providing details such as the exact location of the incident and victims’ identities.
What’s more: Local residents told Caixin the kindergarten in question is a private education institution called Hongxing Yingcai, which was founded in February 2021 and currently serves more than 160 children.
In recent years, there have been a number of attacks targeting children and schools in China. In August, a man killed three people and injured six others at a kindergarten in East China’s Jiangxi province. One eyewitness of that case told Caixin the injured included children and teachers.
In eastern province Jiangsu, a kindergarten bombing in 2017 left eight dead and 65 injured, with police later identifying the suspect as a 22-year-old man who was also killed in the blast.
Contact reporter Wang Xintong (xintongwang@caixin.com) and editor Bertrand Teo (bertrandteo@caixin.com)
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