Knife attacker kills seven children, wounds 19 in China: official by Staff Writers Beijing (AFP) April 27, 2018 A knife-wielding man killed seven middle school children and injured 19 others as they returned home in northern China on Friday, authorities said, in one of the deadliest such rampages in the country in recent years. The suspect was detained and the injured children were receiving treatment, the propaganda department of Mizhi County in Shaanxi province said on its official social media account. The incident took place at around 6:10 pm local time, the department said, without providing further details. The ages of the children were not given, but middle schoolers are usually between 12 and 15 years old in China. Knife attacks are not uncommon in the country. In February, a knife-wielding man with a personal grudge killed a woman and injured 12 others in a busy Beijing shopping mall -- a rare act of violence in the heavily policed capital. Last year, a man armed with a kitchen knife killed two people and wounded nine others in a supermarket in the southern city of Shenzhen. And in January 2017, a man armed with a kitchen knife stabbed and wounded 11 children at a kindergarten in China's southern Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
'Eradicate the tumours': Chinese civilians drive Xinjiang crackdown Moyu County, China (AFP) April 26, 2018 The civilian group descended on the village under government instructions to "win the people's hearts", but it also had a darker mission: identifying and punishing threats to the Chinese state. Four months after the Communist Party sent the "work team" to Akeqie Kanle, a fifth of its adult population - over 100 people - had disappeared into detention and re-education centres. The team - comprising staff from a regional university - was among more than 10,000 such groups that poured into rura ... read more
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