The ages of the victims have not been disclosed.
Beijing:
A knife attack on Wednesday at a kindergarten in southeastern China’s Jianxi province killed three people and injured six others.
A “gangster in a cap and mask” entered the private kindergarten in Anfu province at about 10 a.m. local time (0200 GMT), police said in a statement published on China’s Twitter-like Weibo. The 48-year-old suspect is still at large, she added.
“The public security services are doing everything they can to track down the suspect,” the police said.
A video of the scene shared by the state-owned Beijing Daily shows a police officer carrying a small child in his arms to an ambulance.
The ages of the victims have not been disclosed.
Mass violent crime is rare in China, which strictly prohibits civilians from possessing firearms, but there has been a spate of mass stabbings in recent years.
And deadly knife attacks targeting preschoolers and students have taken place across the country, carried out by people allegedly seeking revenge on society.
Last April, two children were killed and 16 others injured when a man with a knife entered a kindergarten in southern China.
More recently, four people were injured in a stabbing at a major hospital in Shanghai last month before the knife-wielding attacker was shot and restrained by police.
Six people were also killed and 14 injured after a man stabbed passers-by on a pedestrianized shopping street in the eastern Chinese city of Anqing in June last year.
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