Three children are among six people who have died after a stabbing at a kindergarten in China’s Guangdong province.
The other victims are believed to be a teacher and two parents.
It happened in Lianjiang, Guangdong province in the southeast. china.
A 25-year-old man surnamed Wu has been arrested, police said.
The incident took place around 7:40 a.m. local time, when parents were likely dropping off their children at daycare.
Another person was injured.
Dafeng News, a news outlet, said an unidentified witness had claimed the attacker’s son had been hit earlier by the car of one of the people who died at the school.
No other details were immediately available.
Although violent crime is rare in China, attacks on kindergartens have been prominent in recent years.
Last August, three were killed and others injured in a stabbing at a preschool in Jiangxi province, while in 2021 a man killed two children and injured 16 at a kindergarten in the region of Guangxi
Analysts say they are often blamed on grudges or mental illness and can often involve the use of knives. Ownership of most guns is illegal in China.
