Although campus crime dropped significantly from January to
September this year, 43 students were killed in criminal acts at
schools across China.???
The ministry's public order management bureau received 200
reports of all crimes including 103 criminal cases during the first
half of 2006. The crimes resulted in 43 deaths.??
The ministry said more than 50 percent of the reported student
deaths were caused by student conflicts and many were the result of
knife fights.??
China's police investigated 36,648 school crimes in the first
nine months of the year, down 8.16 percent over the same period of
last year, the Ministry of Public Security said on
Thursday.???
Property-related offences including looting, robbery and
assaults have declined by 38.9 percent, 17.1 percent and 13.8
percent respectively, according to the ministry.??
The ministry has stationed more than 102,000 police and set up
more than 32,000 security posts on and around campuses across the
country to stem school violence.
(Xinhua News Agency October 13, 2006)
