China: 14 kindergarten children injured in knife attack

Chongqing: A woman wielding a kitchen knife went on a stabbing spree wounding 14 children at a kindergarten school in China's Chongqing city on Friday.

Chongqing City Banan District police said that the incident occurred at about 9:30 am (local time), when the children were going back to their classes after morning exercises, when the woman attacked them.

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The female attacker, aged 39 years old, was sent into police custody after being overpowered by the security guards and staff of the kindergarten school. The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.

In recent years, China has faced a string of unrelated knife attacks in high, middle and kindergarten schools.

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In April this year, nine students were stabbed to death in a similar attack at a middle school in Shaanxi province. (ANI)

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