Knife attacker injures 10 children at Chinese school

A knife-wielding assailant hacked at children in a Chinese schoolyard on Monday, wounding 10 before killing himself, police and reports said, the latest such attack in the country. Pupils were lining up to go home at the end of the morning session when the man struck, slashing at several children before fleeing, the state-run China News Service cited a witness as saying.
A woman passer-by saw several students with their faces covered in blood, apparently from head injuries, being bandaged up, it added. The victims in Haikou, in the southern island province of Hainan, were six boys and four girls, the report said, two of them severely wounded but neither in life-threatening condition. "I thought my child would be safe at school; I didn't think something like this would happen," the mother of Liu Qiang, seven, told the Nanhai Online news portal at the hospital where her son was being treated.