BEIJING: A knifeman stabbed three children to death and wounded five more plus a teacher in a rampage at a Chinese primary school yesterday, in the country’s latest attack against youngsters.
The attacker killed himself by jumping from a building following the carnage at a school in Shiyan in the central province of Hubei, according news agency Xinhua.
The six wounded have been hospitalised, it said, adding two were seriously hurt.
The man, surnamed Chen, “died on the spot,” Xinhua said without providing further details.
He carried out the attack “because he couldn’t enrol his child” at the school, local broadcaster Shiyan Television said on its verified Sina Weibo account, China’s version of Twitter, without elaborating.
A local police official declined to provide information, saying: “I am not clear, the police bureau officials are at that school investigating.”
Governor jailed over corruption
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s first female provincial leader, and head of one of the country’s most powerful political dynasties, was jailed for four years yesterday for bribing a top judge over an election dispute.
The case of Ratu Atut Chosiyah has transfixed even graft-weary Indonesia since her arrest last year for giving kickbacks to the constitutional court’s then chief justice, Akil Mochtar.
Her family dominates wealthy Banten province on the main island of Java, controlling five of its eight districts. It is one of several local political dynasties that have flourished since the 1998 downfall of dictator Suharto.
Judges at a special anti-corruption court in Jakarta found the 52-year-old guilty of bribing Mochtar with one billion rupiah to annul a local election result in Banten that went against one of her close associates.
She was sentenced to four years in jail, lighter than the 10-year term sought by prosecutors. She was also ordered to pay a fine of 200 million rupiah.
“Clearly it’s not fair to me,” said Chosiyah, who has been in custody since her arrest, after the verdict was handed down.
Agencies
