A knife attack near a schoo꧑l in China's cꩲapital on Monday injured five people, including three children, police said.
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A knife attack near a schoo꧑l in China's cꩲapital on Monday injured five people, including three children, police said.
The attack occurred in midafterno💞on in Beijing's northwestern Haidian district. None of the injuries was life-threatening, police said in⭕ a statement. A 50-year-old suspect surnamed Tang was detained at the scene and is under investigation, it said.
The location of the 𒁃attack given by🎶 the statement is near a famous primary school.
Video circulating on social media showed two school-aged children on the ground. Another image showed a man with blood on his face being꧟ held to the ground.
Multiple knife attacks have occurred in China this year, including severa🗹l involving school children.
Last month, a 10-year-old Jཧapanese student died after being attacked with a knife near his school in the southern city of Shenzhen. Another attack in June at a school bus stop for a Japanese school in Suzhou injured a woman and her child. A Chinese woman who tried to intervene was killed.
In early October, three peopl🃏e were killed and 15 others were wounded i🦄n a knife attack in a Shanghai supermarket.
China tightly restricts private gun ownersꦚhip, making knives and homemade explosives among the most common weapons.