2023 BBC. "I saw a person come straight at me with a long knife, and I ran away with everyone," he said, adding that people who were slower were severely injured. Subject: Re: Mass stabbings Fri Jun 21, 2019 10:24 pm. With a knife in each hand, he killed a 39 year-old man and a 12 year-old schoolgirl,. The perpetrator, 22-year-old Xu Taoran, died in the blast. The suspect had taken revenge on society because of relationship frustrations, the police report said. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Sex Crimes Spike 75% with Mass . [3] Both terrorist groups used publications such as Dabiq of IS and Inspire of al-Qaeda to propagate the ideologies of the organisations and demonize their opponents, particularly the western democracy and their values. Some of the victims, including a. The closest data we have is for homicides involving stabbings in London until the end of last year and those involving stabbings or shootings across the whole of England . Over the weekend, six people were killed and 14 injured after a knife-wielding man stabbed passersby on a pedestrian shopping street in the eastern Chinese city of Anqing. Deadly mass stabbings are more rare than mass shootings but have happened around the world. [24] The woman had worked there for years, but was thought to have psychiatric problems. Twitter. After the 1996 Port Arthur mass murder, Australia banned most semiautomatic rifles, but they still have mass. [32] Alerts relating to the incidents were extended to Manitoba and Alberta. They are then more likely to resort to violence. Based on a publication by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, knife-enabled crime is an incident where harm is threatened or caused with the use of bladed weapons. [30] Eight people were killed, and 48 others were injured, including members of the public and four unarmed police officers who attempted to stop the assailants. 2:08 AM EDT, Wed June 9, 2021. Ranked 71st. Most of the Chinese victims on Dec. 14 were pre-teens who suffered head wounds. However, the numbers are reversed in Europe, where guns account for barely 20% of homicides but knives are used nearly 40% of the time. The motive for the attack remains unclear. China, Japan incidents. The full table is displayed further down the page, but the top ten countries rank as follows: Stabbing deaths and injuries are more common in Europe than in the Americas. [55], 39 people (37 students and two adults) are injured in a knife attack at a primary school. More people have died this year through stabbings or shooting, and more young men. [2], A direct approach taken by some schools in the United States of America was installing weapon detection systems in schools. However, not all schools increased their security because of lack of funds to hire extra security. [2] The KiVa program in Finland is another successful anti-bullying program in Europe. [3] The terrorist organisations have encouraged their followers to launch attacks with knives because it is a cheap and easy method which is difficult to be detected by authorities yet capable of causing great harm to the general public. China authority mishandling of case sparks protest by locals. [2][16] They were offered with assistance in employment, housing and education to help them depart from violence and knife crime. The summit, which begins June 11 and runs for three days, is expected to include discussions on how the worlds wealthiest democracies can work together to tackle major global challenges such as access to covid-19 vaccinations and climate change, while countering the rise of China and Russia. In China, theres little focus on mental health, so more potential offenders slip through the cracks, according to a report by Quartz. [16] Gang members were also invited to a meeting with the police, health professionals, victims and social service workers where they discussed the implications of knife crime and violence. Various studies have been conducted by scholars and researchers to examine the relationship between political repression and terrorism. Last June, knife-wielding assailants killed nine policemen and 17 civilians at a police station in Lukqun Township in Xinjiang. [11] Some studies argued that political repression may turn non-violent groups to acts of violence. [2] Children and young people with adverse experience are particularly prone to being perpetrators or victims of violence. In another such incident in April, in which two children were killed by a knife-wielding man at a kindergarten in southern China. [18] Some experts have attributed the backlash against the Islamic religion and Muslims to the terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom which were carried out by Muslims. The Uighurs are a Muslim,. According to official announcements, the suspects were often found to have been living with mental illness, or were seeking revenge against their employers, officials, or the wider society. But while Chinas strict control on guns has sharply reduced the number of casualties in public attacks, it has seemingly failed to address the root causes that repeatedly trigger these types of tragedies. [2], Some scholars and experts believe that knife crime, mass stabbing and terrorist attacks have caused a surge in Islamophobia. How many countries are surrounded by China through land? But schools are still coming under attack. Thread starter SloppyNuts; Start date Thursday at 9:49 AM; Prev. However as Chinas economic downturn churns onand rapid urbanization and dislocation continuesthe psychological stress on its citizens can only get worse. It was planned that all schools have a security guard by 2013.[63]. !\rhttps://www.patreon.com/ChinaUncensored\r\rWe also accept bitcoin!\rhttp://www.chinauncensored.tv/bitcoin/\r\rMake sure to share this video with your friends!\r______________________________\rSubscribe for updates:\rhttps://www.youtube.com/ChinaUncensored?sub_confirmation=1\r\r______________________________\rTwitter: https://twitter.com/ChinaUncensored\rFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/ChinaUncensored\rInstagram: http://instagram.com/ChinaUncensored\r\ror check out the China Unscripted Podcast!\rhttps://youtube.com/chinaunscripted\r______________________________\r All Rights Reserved. [16] For example, No Knives, Better Lives, an organisation launched in 2009, works with the Scottish police, schools and volunteers to raise awareness among young people on knife crime prevention. And this tradition is not always considered evil. [8][17] The attacker later committed suicide at his house; he was the landlord of the school,[18] Shengshui Temple private kindergarten, and had been involved in an ongoing dispute with the school administrator about when the school would move out of the building. File photo of police standing guard next to a basket being used to cover a knife within a cordoned off area . A survivor named Yang Haifei, who was wounded in the back and chest, told Xinhua he had been buying a train ticket when the attackers rushed into the station. [50], A knife-wielding assailant injured 14 children at a kindergarten in the western Chinese city of Chongqing on Friday morning, police reported. [2] Examples of drugs that are particularly linked to acts of violence include tobacco, cocaine and amphetamines. Ten people have been killed and 15 others were hospitalized in a series of stabbings in Canada's Saskatchewan province, police said Sunday. He added that those too slow to flee were cut down. "I saw a person come straight at me with a long knife and I ran away with everyone," he said. In December, another mass stabbing in a small city in northeastern Liaoning province left seven people dead and another seven injured. [9], An attacker named Wu Huanming (), 48, killed seven children and two adults and injured 11 other persons with a cleaver at a kindergarten in Hanzhong, Shaanxi on May 12, 2010;[8] early reports were removed from the internet in China, for fear that mass coverage of such violence could provoke copycat attacks. On March 23, 2010, Zheng Minsheng ()[7] 41, murdered eight children with a knife in an elementary school in Nanping,[8] Fujian province;[9] The attack was widely reported in Chinese media (called ),[7] sparking fears of copycat crimes. fucking throw the entirety of the prison at him. That's how the Chinese roll. New China committee debuts, warns of 'existential struggle', Workers dig by layers in search for 47 missing at China mine, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan aggression in its kitty, China tutors US journalists about US hegemony, its perils. by Viola Zhou. Social media users in China posted pictures of the attack on the internet, but correspondents say they are being taken down. One man stabbed to death five people with a kitchen knife at a Calgary party. (Several days earlier, the Chinese Twitter-like microblog called Weibo had circulated reports of a serial subway slasher.) AFP. On March 1, 2014, a group of eight male and female attackers wielding knives attacked a railway station at Kunming, . Tours, exhibitions, performances and other events celebrating the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party have sprung up across the country in the lead-up to July 1. Based on section 2 of the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012 of the United States of America, which was signed into law and published by the US Congress on 13 January 2013, mass killing is an individual occasion with three or more people murdered. The timing of the four incidents suggested the possibility of a copycat phenomena, in which criminals mimic sensational incidents after learning of them from media. As most cases had no known motive, analysts have blamed mental health problems caused by rapid social change for the rise in these kinds of mass murder and murder-suicide incidents. You only ever hear about mass shootings in America, because guns are way cooler and it's usually a school. The US Senate on Tuesday passed rare, bipartisan legislation meant to counter Beijings growing influence by investing more than $200 billion into American technology, science and research. The death toll has risen to nine in Friday's stabbing attack outside a middle school in northwestern China allegedly carried out by a former pupil seeking revenge for having been bullied. Knife violence in Asia is not exclusive to China. An estimated 100 million Chinese have varying degrees of mental illness but China has a fraction of the number of mental health professionals compared to developed countries., According to a report by The Straits Times, experts in China have pointed to anxieties caused by social upheaval and persistent inequality in explaining the attacks.