Suspect arrested after assault on the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Expertise in Yixing county, police say.
Eight individuals have been killed and 17 others wounded in a knife assault at a vocational faculty in Wuxi metropolis, japanese China, police mentioned.
The suspect – a former pupil – has been arrested, police mentioned on Saturday.
The assault occurred on the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Expertise in Yixing County at about 6:30pm native time (10:30 GMT), the Yixing police mentioned in a press release.
Police mentioned the suspect was a 21-year-old former pupil on the faculty, who was meant to graduate this 12 months, however had failed his exams.
“He returned to the varsity to precise his anger and commit these murders,” police mentioned, including that the suspect had confessed.
That is the second lethal assault inside per week after a man drove his car into people at a sport facility within the southern metropolis of Zhuhai, leaving 35 individuals lifeless and injuring 43 others.
And there was a spate of different assaults in latest months.
In October, in Shanghai, a person killed three individuals and wounded 15 others in a knife assault at a grocery store.
And the month earlier than, a Japanese schoolboy was fatally stabbed within the southern metropolis of Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong.