This past Thursday morning, when a class of 28 kindergarteners were in school, a man came into their room while the teacher was out and stabbed all of them. Most of the children were just four years old. Only three survived, but were in critical condition. The stabbing occurred in the city of Taixing, in the Jiangsu province. There is a suspect, a 47 year old man who fits the description given, who has been arrested for the stabbings. Just a day ago, there were 18 stabbed at a primary school in southern China, and earlier still there were 8 children killed and 5 injured at an elementary school in eastern China. In the latter incident the man, Zheng Minsheng, was executed. He admitted that he carried out this horrendous act because of "failures in his romantic life", according to Xinhua.
What I want to know is HOW? How could someone walk into a classroom of 28 now-panic-stricken children simply kill them all? That seems like the most absurd and terrible type of crime. It was a horrific massacre- and though I feel really displaced from the incident, both because of the physical difference(half-way around the world) and because it is such an uncommon situation; I still feel sorrow over this incident. It is difficult, however, to imagine what the families of these children must be going through- especially knowing how their children watched their classmates' deaths, knowing they would be soon to follow... It's hard to imagine.
Picture: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-03/01/xin_51030301125171323661.jpg
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/28/china.knife.attack/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29
What I want to know is HOW? How could someone walk into a classroom of 28 now-panic-stricken children simply kill them all? That seems like the most absurd and terrible type of crime. It was a horrific massacre- and though I feel really displaced from the incident, both because of the physical difference(half-way around the world) and because it is such an uncommon situation; I still feel sorrow over this incident. It is difficult, however, to imagine what the families of these children must be going through- especially knowing how their children watched their classmates' deaths, knowing they would be soon to follow... It's hard to imagine.
Picture: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-03/01/xin_51030301125171323661.jpg
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/28/china.knife.attack/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29
