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Chenpeng Village Primary School stabbing

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Chenpeng Village Primary School stabbing
LocationChenpeng (Chinese: 陈棚村), Wenshu Township,
Guangshan County, Henan, China
Coordinates31°55′27.19″N 114°46′4.58″E / 31.9242194°N 114.7679389°E / 31.9242194; 114.7679389
Date14 December 2012 (2012-12-14)
Reported to police at 07:40 [1] Beijing Time (GMT+8)
TargetStudents and an elderly woman
WeaponsKitchen knife
Deaths0
Injured24

On 14 December 2012 between 7 and 8 a.m. local time, a 36-year-old villager identified as Min Yongjun (Chinese: 闵拥军),[2] stabbed 24 people, including 23 children and an elderly woman,[3] in a knife attack at Chenpeng Village Primary School, Wenshu Township, Guangshan County, Henan province, China.[1][4][5][6] The children targeted by the knifeman are thought likely to be between six and eleven years of age and the attack occurred as the children were arriving for classes.[5]

The incident has followed other school attacks in China since 2010, typically perpetrated using knives as firearm ownership law in China tightly regulates civilian access to firearms,[7] by mentally disturbed men involved in personal disputes or unhappy with the rapid changes occurring in Chinese society.[4] Security guards had been posted at schools across China,[5][8] with all schools to have a security guard by 2013.[9]

Stabbing

The attack on the children occurred at the entrance of the school.[10] Min first targeted the elderly woman, aged 85, who lived next to the school. He went to her house at around 7 a.m., stole one of her knives and attacked her head. The woman's daughter said an argument had occurred.[11] At around 7:40 a.m., Min pursued the children with the knife he had stolen from the elderly woman's house and slashed them, many on their heads.[11] Xinhua reported that some of the children had had fingers or ears cut off in the knife attack.[12]

Min was restrained at the primary school, and transferred to police custody.[5] The victims were treated at three hospitals.[11] Some of the children were reported to have been taken to hospitals located outside the county in which the stabbing occurred, in order to receive specialized care. None of the victims were fatally wounded.

Perpetrator

The suspect was initially identified to be Min Yingjun (Chinese: 闵应军); however, later reports identified the perpetrator to be a different man, Min Yongjun (Chinese: 闵拥军), of the same village as Min Yingjun.[2] He is reported to have had a long history of epileptic seizures,[2] and to have been influenced by the 2012 Mayan Doomsday Prophecy. This has recently been propagated in China by the Oriental Lightning cult.[13]

Response

The Guangshan county government established an emergency response team for the incident.[5] The local media was tightly controlled, which is typical for school attacks in China out of concern that copycat attacks will occur.[14][15] Officials detained 52 people for spreading doomsday rumours, such as distributing leaflets.[16]

On 16 December, the suspect was arrested and charged with the crime of endangering public safety by dangerous means.[17]

Reactions

The attack in China became entwined in international media coverage of an unrelated school attack committed hours later in the United States. In Connecticut, a 20-year-old man shot and killed 27 people with semi-automatic weapons in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting before committing suicide. Twenty of the victims were young children.[18][19]

Reviewing the strikingly high rate of school attacks in China and the United States in the last few years, combined with differences in gun control regulations between the two nations, many journalists concluded that the lack of gun control in the US was the cause for the many deaths at Sandy Hook. In the attack at Chenpeng, all the children survived. Writers called for tighter gun control in the United States.[15][20][21][22][23]

Comparisons were also drawn between the incident handling by the local and national governments involved. The lack of coverage by Chinese state-run news channels, and the lack of any emotional response from the Chinese government at all levels were contrasted to the detailed U.S. media coverage and President Barack Obama's national speech, including his commitment to tackle the underlying issues.[14][24][25]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "22 students injured in central China knife attack". People Daily. 14 December 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  2. ^ a b c 闵应军：河南22名学生被砍 凶犯闵应军实为“闵拥军”
  3. ^ Suspect in school knife attack 'feared end of the world', China Daily (December 18, 2012)
  4. ^ a b "Man Stabs 22 Children in China". The New York Times. 14 December 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  5. ^ a b c d e "China stabbing spree hurts 22 schoolchildren". CBC News. 14 December 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  6. ^ "China: Children Hurt In School Knife Attack". Sky News. 14 December 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  7. ^ John Hannon (14 December 2012). "Man slashes 22 children near China school". Los Angeles Times.
  8. ^ "China deploys security guards in schools to avoid bloodbath repeat". Thaindian.com. 1 September 2010. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
  9. ^ "China to deploy more security guards at schools - Thaindian News". Thaindian.com. 17 August 2012. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
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  13. ^ Wee, Sui-Lee (17 December 2012). Birsel, Robert (ed.). "China detains 93 for doomsday rumors: Xinhua". Reuters. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
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  15. ^ a b Charles Hutzler (15 December 2012). "Schools and students are targets worldwide". Associated Press. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
  16. ^ Li Qian (17 December 2012). "School hacker obsessed with doomsday". Shanghai Daily.
  17. ^ 河南光山砍伤学生嫌疑人闵拥军被批准逮捕, cpd.com.cn
  18. ^ "闵拥军砍伤22名学生 中国36岁男子闵拥军落网 - 名城西安" (in Chinese). China-xian.com. 15 December 2012. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
  19. ^ "22 Students In China Stabbed In Elementary School Attack by 36-year-old Villager Min Yongjun | American Live Wire". Americanlivewire.com. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
  20. ^ Foto: EFE (15 December 2015). "Obama chora após massacre e critica lobby das armas - Mundo - O Dia Online" (in Portuguese). Odia.ig.com.br. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
  21. ^ Evan Osnos (15 December 2012). "China Watches Newtown: Guns and American Credibility". New Yorker.
  22. ^ "Cina: 36enne accoltella 22 bambini a scuola". 15 December 2012.
  23. ^ Melinda Liu (15 December 2012). "Not Just Sandy Hook: China's Terrifying Knife Attacks". The Daily Beast.
  24. ^ Phil Vinter (14 December 2012). "22 children and elderly woman stabbed outside primary school by Chinese knifeman". Daily Mail.
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