TWO people have been killed and ten others injured after a woman launched a brutal knife attack at a primary school in China.
The attacker was reportedly carrying a fruit knife when she stormed into the Wufang Mingde Elementary School in Guixi city.
The horror rampage took place at around midday in China‘s southern Jiangxi province.
Cops said the brutal stabbing spree was carried out by a 45-year-old woman surnamed Pan.
It has yet to be confirmed whether children were among the casualties.
The female attacker has since been arrested, according to a police statement shared on social media.
Two people died after rescue efforts failed.
According to state broadcaster CCTV, four other people sustained non-life-threatening injuries, while another six received “minor scrapes”.
It is unknown why the primary school, which teaches children aged six to 12 in China, was attacked.
Pan is currently being held by police, and the case is being investigated, the Chinese broadcaster stated.
Parents at the school expressed astonishment and terror after learning that the school had been attacked.
One dad told the BBC: “Of course, we are scared. It’s not just the children; even we adults are very frightened.”
He also stated that the teachers handled the tragedy admirably, as they quickly posted images of the children in the parent group, assuring them that they were safe and that the doors had been locked.
Another parent, who chose to remain anonymous, added: “I received the news at noon, and I was very shocked.
“My child is in the fifth grade and very young and has safely arrived home, but the school has not informed us of anything and has kept everything hidden.
“I am going back to comfort my child and to find out what exactly happened.”
It follows a worrying pattern that has emerged in recent months around China, with a rash of knife assaults killing and injuring numerous civilians, including one at a hospital.
Earlier this month, a man stabbed two people to death and injured 21 others at a hospital in the southern province of Yunnan.
Last August a man with a history of mental illness killed two people and injured seven others with a knife in a residential district in Yunnan.
And last July six people, including three children, were killed in a horrifying kindergarten stabbing in Guangdong.
Police in Lianjiang apprehended a 25-year-old male with the surname Wu following the horrific slaughter.
Firearms are prohibited in China, however there have been at least 17 knife assaults in schools, colleges, and universities since 2010, 10 of which occurred between 2018 and 2023.
The bulk of these incidents have discovered attackers to be men with a grievance against society, while experts have suggested that there may be other causes contributing to the seeming upsurge in mass stabbings in China.
