I think it reflects Bidens view that if youre in a race, there are only two ways to win run faster or trip the other guy, Reinsch said. A number of school stabbings have led to concerns about children's safety. [2] The larger the differences in income between the high-income group and the low-income group, the higher the incidence of homicides. [20] The perpetrators may feel victimized by stress due to the rapid social changes[20] in China during the last 10 years caused by the privatization and decreased social security of China's reform and opening period. [2], WHO has also stated that there is a strong correlation between violence and social inequality and deprivation. In September 2011, a young girl and three adults taking their children to nursery school were killed in Gongyi,[25] Henan by 30-year-old Wang Hongbin with an axe. London's knife crime rates have unfortunately increased in recent years, with a 10% jump from last year and a 29% increase since 2011. Because of the financial crisis of 20072010, some have lost their jobs, which is stigmatized in China, and have had to return to their native villages jobless and unemployed. As per a report by Independent, the Chinese government largely attributes such attacks on people bearing grudges against society with an aim to wreak revenge, or says the perpetrators suffer from unidentified mental illnesses. The suspect, Wu Yechang, aged 25, was caught on-site by police officers, who rushed to the nursery after receiving emergency calls. However, the Global Health Data Exchange maintains a detailed database that includes estimates of death due to "Physical violence by sharp object" that can serve as a general guideline. Institutions that are many decades behind the West in handling mentally disturbed patients are now being pressured to dramatically boost their capabilities, because Chinese families can no longer cope. 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. [2], Schools have also taken precautionary measure to prevent knife crime in school compounds. . The countries with higher rates of stabbing deaths consistently have tighter gun control laws, which forces would-be attackers to resort to knives instead of guns. Our verdict. A series of uncoordinated mass stabbings, hammer attacks, and cleaver attacks in the People's Republic of China began in March 2010. The proportion of knife deaths is about three times greater than firearm deaths in these countries for the 20-24 age group. A woman died from her injuries after being sent to a hospital, the city's Public Security Bureau said in a brief statement. Top News Stories. Ethnic Turkish Uighur separatists have been sporadically fighting for an independent state in Xinjiang, in northwestern China, home to about 10 million Uighur, who are predominantly Muslim. The three-day long Beslan School siege started on September 1, 2004, and involved the imprisonment of 1,100 people including 777 children as hostages. The attacker was a jobless doctor who reportedly was venting frustration after a failed romantic relationship. It was the second random attack on schoolchildren in the mainland in three weeks. [10], On April 28, just a few hours after the execution of Zheng Minsheng in neighboring Fujian Province,[11] in Leizhou,[12] Guangdong another knife-wielding man named Chen Kangbing, 33 ()[13] at Hongfu Primary School wounded 16 students and a teacher. Instagram. That's how the Chinese roll. Knife-Wielding Terror Attack Kills at least 28 in China. In English we say 'assassinate' but in Chinese we say cisa (stab & kill). Meeting this challenge will require a degree of active cooperation among like-minded countries and liberal democracies not seen for 30 years, Morrison is expected to say in a nod to Cold War alliances. [55], 39 people (37 students and two adults) are injured in a knife attack at a primary school. Images seen by the BBC show men and women lying on the floor in pools of blood following the attack. According to the World Bank, citing the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes International Homicide Statistics database, in 2018, there were 0.5 intentional homicides per 100,000 people in China one tenth of the murder rate in the US. fucking throw the entirety of the prison at him. [2] The KiVa program in Finland is another successful anti-bullying program in Europe. What was claimed. According to CNN, a local government statement said that the 25-year-old unemployed man was seeking to "vent anger over family troubles and pessimism.". Seems the victims were all young adults and they were attacked by a deranged 52 year old. The incident is the latest among a spate of public attacks in China in recent months. There were scenes of shock and anguish after the attack, Authorities quickly sealed off the railway station in Kunming, Police are combing the scene of the attack, Bakhmut attacks still being repelled, says Ukraine, AOC under investigation for Met Gala dress, Mother who killed her five children euthanised, Alex Murdaugh jailed for life for double murder, Zoom boss Greg Tomb fired without cause, The children left behind in Cuba's exodus, US sues Exxon over nooses found at Louisiana plant, Sacred coronation oil will be animal-cruelty free. It was the second random attack on schoolchildren in the mainland in three weeks. Royal Canadian Mounted Police via Associated Press. January 25, 2023. The first stabbing was reported on the James Smith Cree Nation at 5:40 a.m. local time, and several more calls came in minutes later about stabbings at other locations, police said. A van was deliberately driven into pedestrians on London Bridge, and then crashed on Borough High Street, just south of the River Thames. There is a role for both strategies, but this bill emphasizes running faster.. File photo of police standing guard next to a basket being used to cover a knife within a cordoned off area . In April, four people were killed in. We don't have exact figures for this year yet. An unidentified 34-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with the stabbings. 30.71. Deadly mass stabbings are more rare than mass shootings, but have happened around the world. According to the Guangzhou-based Southern Weekly, which cited staff from Hubei prison, the suspect was released last June after serving his sentence for attempted murder. [2][3], Many actions have been taken to address mass stabbing and knife crimes. Ten people have been killed and 15 others were hospitalized in a series of stabbings in Canada's Saskatchewan province, police said Sunday. Two were seriously injured, but their injuries were not life-threatening, according to a report from Xinhua news agency. Deaths by sharp objects are especially noticeable in the 15-19 and 20-24 age groups in Northern and Western European countries. [29] They were shot dead by Metropolitan Police and City of London Police authorised firearms officers. Mass killings are very rare, accounting for only 0.2 percent of homicides every year and approximately 1 percent of homicide victims. With guns strictly controlled and out of reach for ordinary people, knives have become the most common weapon used in such atrocities. [31], On September 4, 2022, 29 people were stabbed, 11 of whom were killed, in at least thirteen locations in the James Smith Cree Nation and Weldon, Saskatchewan, Canada. [42], Around 11:40a.m. 58-year-old Lei Mingyue entered an after-school care center in Hantai District and attacked students lining up for lunch with an axe. The incident took place in Haikou, the capital city of the southern island province of Hainan. The Yema Stabbings. In May 2010, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao commented on the school attacks and said that the "social tensions" in China must be addressed. A mass stabbing is a single incident in which multiple victims are harmed or killed in a knife-enabled crime. Revisiting the past: People visit a photo exhibition in Beijing showcasing how life in China has changed over the past 100 years. He also said society was changing rapidly and that subsequent changes in policy were needed. ", "Satoshi Uematsu: Japanese man who killed 19 disabled people sentenced to death", "Isis claims responsibility for London terror attack", "London terror attack: who was Khuram Shazad Butt? [21] 31 people were killed, and a further 141 were wounded. The motive behind the stabbings remains unknown, but RCMP believe some of the victims were targeted by the suspects while others were attacked at random. With a knife in each hand, he killed a 39 year-old man and a 12 year-old schoolgirl,. But the Senate bill, should it become law, suggests Washington knows hobbling your opponent isnt enough if youre not investing in your own backyard. !\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. However, not all schools increased their security because of lack of funds to hire extra security. On Thursday afternoon, a nine-year-old girl out with her grandmother and grandfather was stabbed in the stomach and throat by a Muslim migrant screaming Allahu Akbar in central Gothenburg. A man in China carried out an attack on a school in Guangxi Province where his wife worked. 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. Two months ago, three students were killed and 13 injured when a man with a machete rampaged through a private daycare center in Guangxi. China's Mass Stabbing Crisis! Immediately after the knifings, he was subdued by security guards posted at the Chenpeng school and others across China since a series of attacks against students began in 2010. The stabbing spree alarmed government authorities, who enhanced security at schools; a Chinese regulation now also requires people to register with their national identity cards when purchasing large knives. [13], The Government of the United Kingdom has announced on 31 January 2019 that they will introduce the Knife Crime Prevention Orders through an amendment to the Offensive Weapons Bill in conjunction with the government's effort in tackling knife crime. One of the main factors cited in this growth is the fact that knives are simply more widely available, being both cheaper and much easier to obtain than firearms. A 56-year-old suspect is wanted. VZ. [23] Authorities increased security in the Xinjiang region following the attack. In the US, a pair of deadly mass shootings in Texas and Ohio killed more than 30 people over one weekend. The other 17 people were neighbors that apparently had seen too much. [9] Chen Kangbing had been a teacher at a different primary school in Leizhou, but was on sick leave due to mental illness[13] He was sentenced to death by a court in Zhanjiang in June.[14]. 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 . By comparison, in countries with lower homicide rates, sharp objects/knives and "other mechanisms" tended to be the predominant methods. [49], On June 28, outside Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary School, one of the best private elementary schools in the city, a man attacked three schoolboys and a mother with a kitchen knife, fatally wounding two boys and injuring the others. It was planned that all schools have a security guard by 2013.[63]. All Rights Reserved. According to news agency Reuters, around 100 children and adults have been killed and hundreds more injured over the past decade in apparently uncoordinated, lone wolf attacks. Did you encounter any technical issues? More than four times as many people are stabbed to death than killed with rifles of any kind. [32] Alerts relating to the incidents were extended to Manitoba and Alberta. (Gun ownership is tightly controlled in China, where mass attacks usually . The spate of stabbings began in March of that year, when a man in Fujian province went on a slashing spree outside a primary school, killing 8 and injuring 5. During this time, more and more migrant workers from rural areas have moved to cities such as Shanghai to find jobs. [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. [4] Police reports in 2016 also stated that hate crimes and violence against Muslim communities in the United States of America were on the rise. [51], A 49-year-old man has been arrested after attacking 20 children at a primary school in Beijing with a hammer. This may include enacting new legislation, social and education programs, medical interventions, among others. Regina Police said Monday that Damien Sanderson, 31, was found dead around 11:30 a.m. local time near the location where most of the stabbings happened. [2] Illicit drug trade has been linked to the increasing incidence of knife crime.