Eight killed in stabbing attack at school in eastern China, police say
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Suspect arrested after attack at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in Yixing county, police say.
Eight people have been killed and 17 others wounded in a knife attack at a vocational school in Wuxi city, eastern China, police said.
The suspect – a former student – has been arrested, police said on Saturday.
The attack occurred at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in Yixing County at about 6:30pm local time (10:30 GMT), the Yixing police said in a statement.
Police said the suspect was a 21-year-old former student at the school, who was meant to graduate this year, but had failed his exams.
“He returned to the school to express his anger and commit these murders,” police said, adding that the suspect had confessed.
