Beijing: In a macabre incident, a doctor
with a history of mental illness today broke into a primary
school in east China and hacked to death six children with a
machete and left seven others injured.
The former doctor said to be middle-aged who had been
dismissed from his job at a community clinic walked into the
school as children were assembling for their classes and ran
amok with a machete in the city of Nanping in Fujian Province,
Xinhua reported quoting local officials.
"The man ran into scores of children of primary classes
wielding his machete left and right, felling large number of
children before he was overpowered," the official said.
The injured children were taken to hospital, where their
conditions were described as stable, said a statement from the
publicity department of Nanping Municipal Committee of the
Communist Party of China.
Police, who arrived on the scene on being alerted by
school authorities, arrested the man. The statement said he
was a former community clinic doctor, who had been dismissed
from his post and allegedly had mental problems.
The Experimental School in Nanping City, where the attack
happened, was closed down following the bizarre attack and
pupils were rushed home by their families.
PTI
