According to media reports, six people have been killed and one injured in a stabbing incident at a kindergarten in southern China today.
According to the police, the attack took place at 7.40am in Lianjiang, Guandong Province.
“The victims include one teacher, two parents and three students… and one suspect has been arrested,” a city government spokesperson told the AFP news agency.
The BBC also reported the incident, citing local police who said the attack took place at 7.40am and the suspect – a 25-year-old man with the family name Wu – was arrested 20 minutes later.
Police have classified the case as “intentional assault”, the report added.
The incident was the top-trending discussion on the social media platform Weibo, with 130 million views as of 12.20pm (04:20 GMT), but videos shot by passersby claiming to show the crime scene were removed from Weibo as well as video-sharing platform Douyin.
China has seen a number of stabbing attacks in schools in recent years, despite government efforts to improve security.