ALBAWABA - In the latest string of stabbing attacks, 8 people were killed and 17 others were injured on a college campus in Wuxi city, eastern China, local police said.
The attack occurred around 6:30 p.m. at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in Yixing, Jiangsu province, according to a police statement. The police immediately launched an investigation into the mass stabbing.
The 21-year-old suspect, surnamed Xu, was detained on the site and confessed to the incident, police said. According to local authorities, Xu failed his exams and was unable to graduate, and he was unsatisfied with his internship income.
According to early findings, he chose to vent his rage by harming others, police said in a statement. Videos spreading on social media platforms, including X, showed injured people lying on the street following the attack, while others raced to help.
Last Monday, 35 people were killed when a car slammed into people jogging in the southern city of Zhuhai, the country's bloodiest known attack on the public in a decade. Approximately 40 others were injured.
In October, authorities apprehended a 50-year-old man following a stabbing attack near a Beijing elementary school that injured five people, three of them children. In September, three people were killed and 15 more injured in a knife attack at a suburban grocery in Shanghai.
