School in China reopens after stabbing incident
By IANSWednesday, March 24, 2010
BEIJING - Classes resumed at the primary school in China’s Fujian province Wednesday, a day after a mentally unstable man stabbed eight children to death.
Schoolchildren returned to the Nanping Experimental Primary School accompanied by their parents, where they were welcomed by their teachers and psychological therapists.
“We’ll always protect you,” the teachers assured the students while giving each of them a warm hug. More than 2,000 students and teachers extended their condolences to those killed in the incident Tuesday.
“It’s my first experience in 30 years of teaching career. I feel so sad seeing many young lives passing away,” a teacher, Shi, was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.
A 42-year-old former community doctor in Nanping, Zheng Minsheng, said to have a history of mental health problems, stabbed 13 children at the school entrance Tuesday morning, killing eight of them.
Authorities closed the school after the incident and parents were asked to take the students home.
Zheng was later arrested.
