In another case of a mentally ill person going on a knife-wielding rampage in China, a man killed one person and injured five others in an attack in Shenzhen.
Surveillance video of the attack and the aftermath has since been uploaded on YouTube and Youku, China’s version of YouTube, and shows the stabbing took place on a pedestrian street in Shenzhen, a city neighboring Shanghai, on Jan. 3 at around noon.
Just last month, on the same day as the Sandy Hook school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, a Chinese man with a knife wounded 22 students outside their school in Henan province.
Before that, another knife attack in Fujian made international headlines when eight students were stabbed outside their school in the spring of 2010. Observers have noted that the Chinese cases have resulted in relatively few casualties compared with American shooting sprees – 26 died in Connecticut when a young man opened fire - because attackers have been armed with knives, not firearms, which are banned in China.
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