Child Killed as School Worker Attacks Students
A school employee with a history of mental illness slashed 15 pupils and three teachers with a kitchen knife at a Beijing kindergarten, killing one child and leaving terrified classmates covered with blood, police and news reports said.
Two children were seriously injured in the attack at the school, which is run by the No. 1 Hospital of elite Beijing University, police said.
Police arrested Xu Heping, 51, a part-time gatekeeper at the school who had previously been hospitalized for schizophrenia, police spokesman Liu Wei said.
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