A knife-wielding assailant injured 14 children at a kindergarten in the western Chinese city of Chongqing, police reported. The attacker, a 39-year-old woman, was taken into custody.
No other information about the attacker was given, other than her surname, Liu. Footage posted on social media showed injured children walking to ambulances from the school gate.
China has suffered a number of such incidents in recent years, blamed largely on the mentally ill or people bearing grudges.
Chinese law restricts the sale and possession of firearms, and mass attacks are generally carried out with knives or homemade explosives.
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.
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