Chinese police release video of school stabbing

Chinese police have released surveillance video of a stabbing spree that left 23 students wounded at an elementary school.

The video made public late Tuesday shows dozens of students running out of a gate in panic after a knife-wielding man stormed in, apparently having slashed at a girl along the way.

The video released by local police to state-run China Central Television offers the first images from Friday's attack in Chenpeng village in central China. Police have arrested a suspect, Min Yongjun, on a charge of jeopardizing public security.

Citing local police, the official Xinhua News Agency said Min, driven by doomsday rumors, wanted to "do things to impress the world of his existence" before his death. Some people believe the Mayan calendar predicts an apocalypse this Friday.


It said Min had beaten his parents and daughters on Thursday night, left home and wandered around for the night before he broke into an elderly woman's house, where he wounded her by stabbing her twice with a kitchen knife.


In the surveillance video, a man in blue is seen running through an unguarded school gate while chasing after and slashing at a girl, who stumbles but - after the man leaves - stands up, picks up her school bag and walks out of the gate.



"They didn't know there was a stabber out there," Li said.



Classes at the school resumed Monday with empty seats but tighter security, according to state media reports.

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