Bloodshed in the Classroom: 5 Injured, 3 Primary School Students Stabbed in Shocking Beijing School Attack

Bloodshed in the Classroom: 5 Injured, 3 Primary School Students Stabbed in Shocking Beijing School Attack

October 29, 2024 Catherine Williams - Chief Editor Entertainment

Outside the famous Zhongguancun No. 3 Primary School in Haidian District, Beijing, a 50-year-old man stabbed someone with a knife during school hours on Monday (October 28), injuring five people, including three primary school students. This is at least the fourth attack on primary school students in China since June this year.

Beijing Haidian Police issued a police report on Monday (October 28) stating that at about 3:20 pm that day, a knife wounding case occurred near the intersection of Wanquanzhuang Road and Wanliu Middle Road in Haidian District, killing five people. Passers-by were injured, including three minors.

The report stated that the 50-year-old male suspect surnamed Tang was controlled on the spot. “The injured was sent to the hospital for treatment in time and his life is not in danger.” The case is under further investigation.

The report did not disclose the identity of the injured minor, the reason why the suspect injured others, or the extent of the injured person’s injuries.

Map information shows that the location of the incident was outside the North Campus of Zhongguancun No. 3 Primary School. It was school time when the incident occurred, and the first batch of primary school students were leaving school.

According to the video provided by readers, many passers-by were injured and fell to the ground, and there were a lot of blood stains on the ground. Some netizens said that the man used a large kitchen knife to chop at the children who had just finished school. Children and adults were injured; two of the children were seriously injured, and one child’s fingers were cut off while protecting his head with his hands. However, these reports could not be confirmed by authoritative agencies.

“Lianhe Zaobao” reporter saw at the scene around 8 o’clock that night that there were traces of water washing on the road where the incident occurred. Three police cars were parked outside the school. Several staff members wearing security patrol armbands were walking around the school gate. Pedestrians were still on the road. Discussing the hurtful incident in the afternoon.

A stabbing case occurred outside Beijing Zhongguancun No. 3 Primary School on the afternoon of Monday (October 28). At about 8 o’clock that night, there were still police cars parked on the street outside the school. (Lianhe Zaobao)

A merchant along the street told a reporter from Lianhe Zaobao that after the incident, “more than 100 police officers came” to cordon off the scene, and almost all the streets were filled with police cars and ambulances. Merchants were also warned, “Don’t talk nonsense. All information released by the police shall prevail.”

An injured man with his head wrapped in gauze said during an interview that he saw the suspect hitting the child with an umbrella at the time of the incident. When he stepped forward to stop him, the suspect slashed his head with a kitchen knife and “received ten stitches.”

Zhongguancun No. 3 Primary School is a well-known primary school in Beijing, regarded by some parents as a “top super elementary school”. It is located in the core area of ​​Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park, known as “China’s Silicon Valley”. About 500 meters to the north of the incident is Wanliu Academy, a well-known mansion in Beijing. About one kilometer to the south are the Haidian District Government, Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau Haidian Branch and the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

This is at least the fourth attack on primary school students in China since June this year. Elementary school students were attacked in Japanese schools in Suzhou and Shenzhen in June and September respectively; on October 8, a student was stabbed in front of a primary school in Tianhe District, Guangzhou. The suspects in the four cases are all male, ranging in age from 44 to 60 years old.

Wang Shaojie, a member of the Central Finance Committee of the China Democratic National Construction Association, wrote in Lianhe Zaobao earlier this month that since the end of the epidemic prevention and control, many incidents endangering public safety have occurred in various parts of China, mainly caused by the “five missing persons” (investment failure, life failure, etc.) Frustration, relationship discord, psychological imbalance, mental disorder).

He pointed out that the scale of the “five missing persons” is still expanding; this major change in grassroots society must attract the Chinese government’s great attention.