CHINA: MAN EXECUTED FOR KINDERGARTEN KNIFE ATTACK
January 11, 2019: A court in southern China has put a man to death after he injured 12 children in a knife attack at a kindergarten, the state broadcaster said on 7 January 2019. China Central Television said that in January 2017 Qin Pengan stabbed the children with a vegetable knife in order to extract revenge for his life not going as he wanted and a dispute with a neighbour. None of the children died from their injuries. A local court in Pingxiang city in south China's Guangxi province sentenced Qin to death, and the sentence was carried out on 4 January after being approved by the China's Supreme People's Court, the broadcaster said. (Sources: channelnewsasia.com, 07/01/2018)
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