BEIJING, Aug 3, 2022 (BSS/AFP) - Three people were killed and six others

wounded in a knife attack Wednesday at a kindergarten in southeast China's
Jianxi province.

A "gangster wearing a cap and mask" stormed the private kindergarten in Anfu
county at about 10:00 am local time (0200 GMT), police said in a statement
published on China's Twitter-like Weibo. The 48-year-old suspect is still at
large, they added.

"Public security organs are making every effort to hunt down the suspect,"
the police statement said.

In a video of the scene shared by state-run Beijing Daily, a police officer
can be seen carrying a tiny child in his arms to an ambulance.

The ages of the victims have not been announced.

Mass violent crime is rare in China, which strictly prohibits citizens from
owning firearms, but there has been a spate of mass stabbings in recent
years.

And fatal knife attacks specifically targeting kindergarten and school
students have occurred nationwide, carried out by people reportedly wishing
to wreak revenge on society.

Last April, two children were killed and 16 others wounded when a knife-
wielding man entered a kindergarten in southern China.

More recently, four people were wounded in a stabbing at a major Shanghai
hospital last month before the knife-wielding attacker was shot and subdued
by the police.

Six people were also killed and 14 wounded after a man stabbed passersby on a
pedestrian shopping street in the eastern Chinese city of Anqing in June last
year.