In a knife attack at a kindergarten on Wednesday in the Jiangxi Province in southeast China, three people were murdered and six others were injured, according to authorities.
According to a police statement posted on China’s version of Twitter, Weibo, a “gangster wearing a hat and mask” invaded the private kindergarten in Anfu county at around 10:00 am local time (0200 GMT).
They said that the suspect, 48, is still at large.
The police statement stated that “public security agencies are making every attempt to track down the culprit.”
An officer of the law can be seen escorting a small child to an ambulance in a video of the incident that the government-run Beijing Daily posted online.
The victims’ ages have not been disclosed.
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In China, where gun ownership is rigorously prohibited, mass violent crimes are uncommon, although there have been a number of large-scale stabbings in recent years.
Additionally, countrywide deadly attacks that targeted kindergarten and school youngsters were purportedly carried out by individuals seeking retribution against society or due to qualms with coworkers.
The attacks have compelled authorities to tighten security and sparked demands for further investigation into the reasons of such violent crimes.
When a guy with a knife invaded a kindergarten in southern China last April, two kids were killed and 16 others were injured.
At a primary school in southern China in 2020, a knife-wielding assailant injured 37 children and two adults.
In 2020, a knife-wielding attacker struck a primary school in southern China, inflicting injuries on 37 children and two adults. A security guard was named as the offender by the regional media.
And in that year, a man was given the death penalty for poisoning scores of kids as retaliation against a coworker, which resulted in the death of one youngster.
According to a court in the Henan region of central China, the accused, Wang Yun, poisoned 25 people by adding sodium nitrite to the porridge she was making for the students of her colleague.
In one of the more recent incidents, a knife-wielding attacker stabbed four people at a prominent Shanghai hospital last month before being shot by police and taken into custody.
In June of last year, a man attacked bystanders on a pedestrian shopping area in the eastern Chinese city of Anqing, resulting in six further fatalities and 14 injuries.