Eight people dead after student carries out stabbing spree at Chinese college ‘after failing exam’

At least eight people have died following a mass stabbing at a school in China on Saturday.

A 21-year-old man has been identified as being behind the attack which took place at the Wuxi Vocational College of Arts and Technology.

Another 17 people were understood to have been injured during the stabbing at the college in Yixing City in China’s Jiangsu province.

The man was arrested by Police at 6.00pm local time on Saturday.

Authorities said the suspect is a former student at the college, and has been named locally by his surname, Xu.

Xu reportedly confessed to the killings “without hesitation”. It is believed that he carried out the attack following Xu’s dissatisfaction with an internship and failing an exam.

The Yixing Public Security Bureau said in a statement: “According to preliminary investigations, the suspect… attacked others after failing an exam and not receiving his graduation certificate, as well as being dissatisfied with his internship compensation.”

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Flowers were left at the scene but were removed by authorities.

One man who came to lay a bouquet of chrysanthemums near the school gates said: “They were just 18, 19-year-old kids. It’s such a pity and so sad.”

He added: “We really have to give young people better psychological guidance.”

The stabbings came after 35 people were killed in a car attack in southern China on Monday in what is believed to be the deadliest act of public violence in the country in decades.