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           State Media: 4 Children Stabbed to Death in Southern China

   by Reuters

   A man stabbed four primary school children to death on Friday in the
   southern Chinese region of Guangxi, state media said, the latest in a
   series of knife attacks that have unnerved the country.

   In a separate incident, six people were killed in a stampede in a
   primary school in Kunming, the capital of the southwestern province of
   Yunnan, state news agency Xinhua reported. It did not give details.

   Police were hunting a middle-aged man after the knife attack, Xinhua
   said, citing the public security bureau in Lingshan county in Guangxi.
   Xinhua did not suggest a motive.

   The man attacked the children as they were on their way to school,
   Xinhua said. Three of them died at the scene and one died later at a
   nearby hospital.

   The attack comes less than a month after a man killed three children
   and injured several at a primary school in Hubei province.

   Violent crime is rare in China compared with many other countries but
   there has been a series of attacks on schools and children in recent
   years.

   The attacks have led to much soul-searching and calls for measures to
   improve security at schools in a country were many couples only have
   one child.

   In May, a knife-wielding man stabbed and injured eight students in a
   primary school in another city in Hubei. In December 2012, a man barged
   into a village primary school in the central province of Henan and
   stabbed and injured 23 children.

   School guards in China are often not equipped or trained to stop such
   attacks.
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