8 killed, 17 injured in knife attack in China

According to officials, a stabbing attack on a college campus in Yixing, in eastern China, on Saturday resulted in eight fatalities and seventeen injuries.

“Around 6:30 p.m. on November 16, 2024, a stabbing incident that resulted in casualties occurred at Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in Yixing city, causing 8 deaths and injuring another 17, The suspect was apprehended on the scene,” according to a police statement.

According to the statement, the suspect was upset about failing a test and not receiving his diploma. There is an investigation going on.

“According to preliminary investigations, the suspect, surname Xu — male, 21 years old, a 2024 graduate of the college — attacked others after failing an exam and not receiving his graduation certificate, as well as being dissatisfied with his internship compensation,” a statement by the Yixing Public Security Bureau said.

It further stated that the case was being investigated and the injured were being treated.

The attack is China's most recent mass casualty event.

In the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, a car crashed into pedestrians who were exercising last Monday, killing 35 and wounding nearly 40. Censors quickly intervened to remove online videos of the attack and control social media conversations as word of the attack spread.

After a stabbing attack outside a Beijing elementary school in October left five individuals, including three children, injured, police detained a 50-year-old male.

In September, a knife attack at a Shanghai suburban store claimed three lives and injured fifteen more.

Eleven people were killed and thirteen injured when a bus struck a group of parents and students outside a school in Tai'an, Shandong province, in September. Whether it was an accident or intentional, Chinese authorities did not disclose it.