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HONG KONG — A bus crashed into a group of students and parents outside a school in eastern China on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people, local police said.. Thirteen others were injured when the ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -A man holding what appeared to be a knife attacked a bus used by a Japanese school in Suzhou, China, on Monday, seriously wounding a Chinese woman and injuring a Japanese woman ...
The Japanese mother and her 3-year-old son were waiting for the school bus at the Xindi Center bus stop 1 km (0.62 mi) away from the Japanese School of Suzhou. [4] When the school bus arrived at the stop, a 52-year-old Chinese man, who was unemployed and had recently arrived in the city, suddenly attacked the mother and child with a knife.
The school was closed Tuesday following the attack, and security has been stepped up at other Japanese schools across China, NHK reported. This story has been updated with additional information.
The school's owner, Li Jungang, was arrested on "suspicion of causing traffic casualties"; the parents of each child killed were to be awarded 436,000 yuan in compensation. The government immediately closed the school and opened a public one in its place, with a 45-seat bus donated by an oil company. [1]
Some Chinese bus manufacturers have developed school bus models to be purchased by Chinese schools. Yutong, for example, designed the ZK6100DA model, which was described as a "big-nose school bus" with a "classic western-style appearance" and "the highest safety rating of all school bus products in China" in a 2011 China Daily article. [8]
A 55-year-old local man was detained the same day. In May, two people were killed and 21 wounded in a knife attack at a hospital in southwest Yunnan province, and a 40-year-old male was arrested.
The high frequency of bus attacks are attributed to the ease of the attackers' access to a large group of unprotected people within an enclosed space. [1] As such, it is one of the most common methods of public transportation being targeted or used as weapons, with a high potential for mass-casualties . [ 2 ]