Man Stabs 22 Children in a School in China

Police arrested a 36-year-old local man who stabbed 22 children, at least two of them 

seriously, and one adult at the gate of a Henan grade school in central China.

This latest attack happened as pupils were arriving for classes. A county hospital 

administrator reportedly said that the man first attacked an elderly woman, then the

 children, before being overpowered by security guards.

Two of the injured pupils have been transferred to better-equipped hospitals outside 

the county.

In recent years, knife attacks have broken out, resulting in increased security in China’s

 schools. Many of the attackers have been mentally disturbed men, suggesting that the

 country’s rapid social changes and lack of a modernized hospital system may be 

contributing to a rising number of mental illness cases.