A knife attack near a school in Beijing injures 5 people

Plainclothes police officers pass by an elementary school after a stabbing attack on Oct. 28 at an intersection near the school in Beijing’s northwestern Haidian district. (AP)

BEIJING, China, Oct 29 (AP): A stabbing attack near a school in China’s capital injured five people on Monday, including three children, police said. The attack occurred in the afternoon in the northwestern Haidian district of Beijing. None of the injuries were life-threatening, police said in a statement. A 50-year-old suspect surnamed Tang was detained at the scene and is under investigation, he added.

The location of the attack given in the statement is near a famous primary school. A video circulating on social media shows two school children lying on the ground. Another photo shows a man with blood on his face being held on the ground. There have been numerous stabbing attacks in China this year, including several involving school children.

Last month, a 10-year-old Japanese student died after a stabbing attack near his school in the southern city of Shenzhen. In June, another attack on a school bus stop for a Japanese school in Suzhou injured a woman and her child. A Chinese woman who tried to intervene was killed. In early October, three people were killed and 15 injured in a knife attack in a supermarket in Shanghai. China strictly limits private gun ownership, making knives and homemade explosives among the most common weapons.