Originally posted by solo1
Does anyone know if this happens with other Asians is it in their culture
to do this as some sort of ritual ?
Could be:
6-8-01
Ikeda Elementary School, Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Mamoru Takuma, 37, stabbed and wounded 13 first- and second-graders and two teachers. He killed seven girls, ranging in age from seven- to
eight-years-old, and one six-year-old boy.
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9-4-02
Neung Dong Church Elementary School, Seoul, South Korea
A man identified only as Hwang, 53, started slashing the students. Nine students were wounded.
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8-4-04
The Nursery (Kindergarten) at Beijing University Number One Hospital, Beijing, China
Xu Heping, 51, pulled out a kitchen knife and began "hacking people up at the kindergarten." During his rampage Xu wounded 15 young children, three
teachers and killed a 4-year-old boy with the knife.
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9-11-04
A Day Care Center in Suzhou City, Jiangsu, China
Yang Guozhu, 41, broke into the day care center armed with a knife, some gasoline and home-made explosives. He slashed 28 children and was about to
light up the explosives with the gasoline when the police arrived and stopped him. All of the wounded students survived.
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9-20-04
Number 1 Experimental Primary School, Juxian County, Shandong Province, China
Jia Qingyou, 36. lashed out at the children in the school with a kitchen knife. He cut 25 children on their arms and faces in his rage, but they all
survived.
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10-21-04
Beixin Kindergarten, Beijing, China
Fu Hegong killed 5 with bricks, knives, a blanket and a fire extinguisher.
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11-25-04
Number 2 High School, Ruzhou, Henan Province, China
21-year-old Yan Yanming broke into the dormitory of the school and stabbed nine boys to death as they slept.
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12-3-04
Central Primary School, Mingcheng Township, Panshi, Jilin Province, China
Around 9:00 this morning, Liu Zhigang stabbed 12 first-graders and then cut his own throat before being restrained by school staff and police. The
30-year-old stabbed five boys and seven girls.
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2-14-05
Chuo Elementary School, Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
A 17-year-old boy returns to his elementary school at 3 p.m. today and attacks three teachers.
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4-4-06
Nansan Middle School, Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, China
A man identified only as Meng broke into one of the classrooms and used a kitchen knife to injure eight students, two boys and six girls.
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9-9-05
St. Joseph Convent (Middle) School, Bangkok, Thailand
Jitrada Tantiwanich-ayasuk, 31 entered a classroom and attacked four students, severely stabbing three of them.
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5-15-07 ~ Maoming, China
Wu Jianguo, a 17-year-year at Maoming's Number Three Middle School in the Guangdong province stabbed two classmates to death.
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1-5-08
A 16-year-old boy attacked shoppers with knives in Tokyo in January, injuring two.
The teen, who was wearing a black jacket and black jeans, was holding a kitchen knife in each hand and had a knife hidden in his shoe.
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2-25-08 ~ Leizhou, Guangdong, China
A young man, Chen Wenzhen broke into Leizhou No. 2 Middle School and killed a boy and a girl with a knife and injured four (three students & a
teacher) before he stabbed himself and jumped off the fifth floor, dying by suicide.
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3-23-08 Japan
Masahiro Kanagawa, 24, stabbed eight people, killing one, outside a mall in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki prefecture north of the capital.
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6-8-08 Tokyo, Japan
Tomohiro Kato, 25, rammed a truck into pedestrians, then slashed his way with a survival knife through Sunday shopping crowds, killing seven people
and wounding 10
