"14 children injured in knife attack..." Isa Chudzik

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/26/660846684/14-children-injured-in-china-after-knife-attack-at-kindergarten

Isa Chudzik

This article details a knife attack that happened in a Chinese kindergarten class. The attack was committed by a 39 year old woman (whose motive at this time is still unknown), and she was able to wound 14 children before being successfully restrained. At the time of the article all fourteen children were alive and receiving treatment in a hospital. As if the incident itself is not disturbing enough, a quote from the BBC drove it further: "Violent crime is relatively rare in China, but it has faced a string of unrelated knife attacks in school and kindergartens in recent years". While reading this I found myself comparing the violent attacks in school in China versus the United States. One thing I noticed is that in China, the perpetrators have lately been grown adults, while in the United States school violence tends to be committed by a student or young adult. Another comparison is the weapons used, as in China the weapon seems to consistently be a knife of some sort, but in the United States some type of firearm is often used.