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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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A Chinese woman whose child was killed in a stabbing incident gets help outside a elementary school in Nanping in east China’s Fujian province Tuesday March 23, 2010. A former doctor armed with a large knife killed eight children and injured five others Tuesday at the school, a local official said.
Man stabs, kills 8 children at Chinese school Associated Press Writer
BEIJING – A former doctor armed with a large knife rampaged outside an elementary school in eastern China, stabbing eight young children to death and wounding five others Tuesday, a local official and a state news agency said.
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The assailant was arrested after the early morning attack, launched as students were arriving for school, Xinhua News
Agency said. His rampage was finally stopped by passers-by and school security guards, Xinhua said, citing Wu Jiachong, the owner
of a nearby shop. The attacker, Zheng Minsheng, 41, worked as a doctor in a community clinic before resigning last
June, Xinhua said, citing Huang Zhongping, spokesman for the Nanping city public security bureau. Zheng was known to have a history of mental illness, said a man surnamed Wu in the Nanping city government office, who would not give his full name as is common among Chinese officials. Continued on page 6
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BAGHDAD – Iraq’s Human Rights Ministry says a Saddam Hussein-era mass grave dating to his 1991 suppression of a Shiite revolt has been unearthed in the south. Ministry’s spokesman Kamil Ameen says government teams working on an irrigation project found the grave in an agricultural area in Maysan province. Ameen told The Associated
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An Iraqi soldier stands guard as he looks at a damaged concrete wall after a bomb attack in Baghdad March 23, 2010. A roadside bomb wounded four people in central Baghdad, a police source said.
Press Tuesday that about 20 bodies were unearthed. The irrigation project has been put on hold until the excavation is complete. Since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion toppling Saddam’s regime, mass graves have been found across Iraq. Following Saddam’s defeat in the first Gulf War, Iraq’s Shiites revolted in the south, but were brutally suppressed. Hundreds of thousands are believed to have been killed.