Chinese school attack leaves three children dead A brief initial report from Xinhua, the state news agency, said a man named Mr Wu, a schizophrenic, broke into a residential building in Pingnan that was being used as a day care centre. Mr Wu was arrested on the scene, but no motivation for the attack has yet been given. Photographs from the scene showed a large group of parents clustered around the building, and small children being treated for severe injuries in hospital. In 2010, China saw five separate attacks on school children. At one point, three different kindergartens were attacked in three days after an initial incident triggered copycat attacks. In the worst attack, a 48-year-old man killed seven children and two women with a kitchen cleaver at a kindergarten in Shaanxi province in north west China, before committing suicide. In the other cases, attackers used hammers, knives and petrol to kill and injure scores of other children. Almost all the attacks were by middle-aged men who were either mentally unstable or nursing some grievance against society. The spate of violence horrified Chinese parents and the government moved quickly to bolster security at schools.