Eight killed and 17 wounded in second mass attack in China in a week

HONG KONG — Eight people were killed and 17 more were injured in a knife attack at a school in eastern China on Saturday evening, local police said, in the same week the country saw its deadliest mass killing in almost a decade.

HONG KONG — Eight people were killed and 17 more were injured in a knife attack at a school in eastern China on Saturday evening, local police said, in the same week the country saw its deadliest mass killing in almost a decade.

The investigation is underway, along with the treatment of the injured, the Yixing Public Security Bureau said in a statement late Saturday night.

A 21-year-old suspect, surnamed Xu, was arrested at the scene in the eastern county of Yixing, Jiangsu. Xu had been a student at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology and carried out the attack “out of anger,” police said.

Xu didn’t receive his graduation certificate after failing an exam, the statement said, and he was also dissatisfied with his internship remuneration.

He confessed to the crime “candidly,” it said.

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