Four killed in school knife rampage

A knife-wielding attacker went on a rampage in a kindergarten in eastern China, leaving three children and one teacher dead.

The unidentified man entered the school in a suburb of Zibo in Shandong province at about 4pm on Tuesday as parents were picking up their children.

About 20 children and staff were injured, two of the children

seriously, said local people.

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China has suffered a spate of deadly attacks on schools and in public spaces this year, leaving dozens of people dead and scores wounded.

A woman who works in a restaurant opposite the Boshan District Experimental Kindergarten's Jinfengyuan branch said the attacker was a man aged 27 or 28 who had gained entry to the school by posing as a parent.

Police rushed to the kindergarten soon after the attack and officers took some injured children to hospital before ambulances had time to arrive.

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