An hour after the attack, police detained a 23-year-old man, whose surname they gave as Kong. Authorities said he sprayed the chemical, called caustic soda, “as a revenge on society,” Xinhua reported. In September, a man attacked an elementary school in Hubei province in central China on the first day of the semester, killing at least eight students and wounding two others, police said. In April, a man armed with a knife killed two students and injured two others at an elementary school in Hunan province in central China. And in January, 20 children were injured after a man with a hammer attacked an elementary school in the Chinese capital, leaving three students seriously injured, authorities said at the time.

Source: bd News24 November 13, 2019 03:54 UTC