Eight people were killed and 17 wounded in a knife attack in eastern China today, the authorities announced, adding that the perpetrator was arrested, reports Beta.
"At 18.30:XNUMX p.m. local time, a knife attack took place at the Wuxi Institute of Art and Technology" in Jiangsu province, police in the city of Jixing said.
The police added that the suspect was "arrested on the spot".
The statement states that the suspect is a recent graduate and that he was motivated by the fact that he "failed the exam, did not receive a degree and was dissatisfied with the compensation for the internship", according to CNN. The investigative procedure is ongoing.
In recent months, a number of violent attacks on citizens have been recorded in China.
On Monday, 35 people were killed and over 40 injured after a car plowed into a group of people exercising outside a stadium in Zhuhai, a city in China's Guangdong province.
In October, police arrested a 50-year-old man after a knife attack near a primary school in Beijing that injured five people, including three children.
In September, a man carried out a knife attack at a supermarket in Shanghai, killing three people and injuring several others.
In the same month, a 10-year-old Japanese student died a day after being stabbed near his school in southern China.
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