Security in spotlight after school knife attack
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The stabbing of 22 children last Friday has led to questions over security after it was revealed it was the third incident involving knife attacks at schools in a central China county since last year.
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A girl talks to her parents on phone after she was injured in a knife attack last Friday at the gate of a primary school in central China's Henan Province. |
Last month, an 18-year-old high school student was stabbed to death by an unknown attacker at the gates of a school and a 17-year-old student was killed by a classmate on his school's playground in October last year.
All three schools are in Guangshan County, Henan Province, Xinhua news agency said yesterday.
Parents told reporters anyone could enter Chenpeng Village Primary School, where the latest stabbings happened, and there were no guards at the gates.
However, a school official surnamed Cao said the gates were closed 24 hours. But he refused to show reporters the surveillance video, saying the headmaster who could permit this was not at the school. "The man rushed into the building and ran upstairs, but our security guard took him out," Cao told reporters. "He didn't enter the classroom and no student was injured there."
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