Children Injured in China Attack

Twenty-eight children and three adults have been injured by a man with a knife at a kindergarten in eastern China, the third such attack in a month, reports BBC.

Officials said five of the injured were in a critical condition in hospital after the incident in Jiangsu province.

It follows a similar knife attack on Wednesday in the south of the country, in which 16 pupils and one teacher were injured.

Earlier that day, a doctor convicted of stabbing eight children to death last month in Fujian province was executed.

The alleged assailant in Thursday's attack in the city of Taixing in Jiangsu was a 47-year-old man. He was detained afterwards.

"The gate-keeper, teachers, and students were attacked. The injured are receiving treatment in hospital. We don't have any reports of deaths yet," an official with the Taixing city government told AFP.

China has witnessed several school attacks in recent years, most blamed on people with personal grudges or suffering from mental illness.

Since a spate of attacks in 2004, many schools have employed professional guards.