Father stabs three pupils to death in rampage at Chinese school

A man armed with two knives went on the rampage at a Chinese primary school killing three children, reportedly after his daughter was barred from returning because she hadn't finished her summer assignments.

Several others were injured in the attack, some seriously, and the man threw himself off the school's top floor to his death afterwards. 

The atrocity took place on the first day of the new school term. 

The suspect was a parent of a student, and he attacked the children because the school did not let his daughter register for the new term because she had not completed her summer homework, state broadcaster CCTV reported on its microblog.

The man entered the school, in Shiyan city of Hubei province, saying he had to register his daughter, CCTV said, citing the initial police investigation.

After the attack, the man killed himself by jumping out of the school building, state media said.

Violent crime is rare in China compared with many other countries but there have been a series of attacks on schools and children in recent years.

A government official in Shiyan, contacted by telephone, declined to comment on the attack.

In May, a knife-wielding man stabbed and injured eight students in a primary school in another city in Hubei.

In December 2012, a man barged into a village primary school in the central province of Henan and stabbed and injured 23 children.School guards in China are often not equipped or trained to stop such attacks. 

Source: Daily Mail