A five-year-old boy and his teacher have been killed at an east
Beijing kindergarten and the boy's body stuffed in a washing
machine in an attack on the school, the Beijing News said
Friday.
The boy's body was found with no obvious wounds, but the teacher
had been hit on the head in Thursday morning's assault, the
newspaper said. Details of events are still vague, but seven
teachers and four children are known to have spent the night at
Beixin Kindergarten.
Earlier this month, a Chinese primary school teacher stabbed
four children to death and wounded 12 pupils and four colleagues in
the central province of Hunan.
Last month, a man wielding a knife and homemade bombs attacked
28 children in a kindergarten in the eastern city of Suzhou, just
outside Shanghai.
Fortunately no one was killed.
On August 4 a janitor wielding a kitchen knife stabbed 15
children and at least two teachers at a kindergarten in Beijing,
killing one child.
(Xinhua News Agency October 22, 2004)