Man breaks into school dormitory, knifes 8 to death in China
A man with a knife broke into a high school dormitory and killed eight students in the deadliest of a series of knife attacks at Chinese schools in recent months, the government said yesterday.
Police were searching for the man following the attack late Thursday at the No. 2 High School in the city of Ruzhou, which also injured four students, the official Xinhua News Agency said. It didn't give a possible motive but said police believe they know the man's appearance.
The attacker broke into the dormitory at 11:45 p.m. and "cho-pped eight people to death and four to injury," Xinhua said. It had said earlier that the attack in central China took place Friday morning.
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