A woman stabbed 14 Xinshiji kindergarten school children without any motif with a kitchen knife, in China’s southwestern city of Chongqing, on Friday.
The woman made the incident when the children returned from morning exercises to classes, about 9:30 a.m. The woman was taken to the custody immediately. The 39 years old women identified by her surname Liu, said the police account on China’s Twitter-like Weibo.
The Injured children were taken to Chongqing’s Banan People’s Hospital by the staffs for treatment. A doctor answered the phone confirmed the children were there but didn’t give any details referring questions to the local government.
Images and video footage posted by local media online show children in blood-soaked clothes, some with knife wounds on their face.
Police said that they are investigating the incident but didn’t find any motif of that serious crime yet. China has suffered a number of such incidents in recent years, blamed largely on the mentally ill or people bearing grudges.
Chinese law restricts the sale and possession of firearms, and mass attacks are generally carried out with knives or homemade explosives because gun controls are extremely strict in China.
Almost 20 children were killed in school attacks in 2010, prompting a response from top government officials and leading many schools to add gates and security guards.
In June, a man used a kitchen knife to attack three boys and a mother near a school in Shanghai on Thursday, killing two of the children. Police said the assailant was unemployed and carried out the attack.
Police are trying to find the reason behind the 14 children stabbed incident.
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