Eight people are dead and 17 injured following a knife attack at a vocational school in eastern China. Police arrested a 21-year-old former student suspected in the attack.
The attack occurred Saturday evening at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in Yixing, located in Jiangsu province. Police confirmed the suspect is a former student who attended the school and was set to graduate this year but failed his exams.
“He returned to the school to express his anger and commit these murders,” police said, adding that the suspect confessed.
Emergency services responded to the scene and provided care to the wounded. Authorities are continuing to investigate the incident.