{"id":19894,"date":"2018-10-26T08:25:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T08:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19894"},"modified":"2018-10-26T08:25:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T08:25:38","slug":"knife-wielding-woman-wounds-14-children-at-china-kindergarten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19894","title":{"rendered":"Knife-wielding woman wounds 14 children at China kindergarten"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"100\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">A knife-wielding woman wounded 14 children at a kindergarten in western China on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The attacker, a 39-year-old woman armed with a kitchen knife, was taken into custody in the city of Chongqing and no motive for the assault was given by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The attack at the Xinshiji Kindergarten in the city&#8217;s outskirts took place at 9:30am (01:30GMT) as the children were returning to class, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were taken to hospital while guards and staff at the kindergarten restrained the attacker.<\/p>\n<p>Footage posted on social media showed injured children walking to ambulances from the school gate, with some being placed on gurneys.<\/p>\n<p>No information about the attacker was given, other than her surname, Liu.<\/p>\n<p>Violent crime is rare in China compared with many other countries, especially in major cities where security is tight, but there has been a series of knife and axe attacks in recent years, many targeting children.<\/p>\n<p>Such assaults have been blamed largely on the mentally ill or people bearing grudges.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese law restricts the sale and possession of firearms, and mass attacks are generally carried out with knives or homemade explosives.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 20 children were killed in school attacks in 2010, prompting a response from top government officials and leading many schools to add gates and security guards.<\/p>\n<p>In June, a man used a kitchen knife to attack three boys and a mother near a school in Shanghai, killing two of the children. Police said the assailant was unemployed and carried out the attack &#8220;to take revenge on society&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A knife-wielding woman wounded 14 children at a kindergarten in western China on Friday. The attacker, a 39-year-old woman armed with a kitchen knife, was taken into custody in the city of Chongqing and no motive for the assault was given by police. The attack at the Xinshiji Kindergarten in the city&#8217;s outskirts took place&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}