There was a new horror attack in China at the weekend, as knife killings spread with a spate of attacks striking in Wuxi City, Jiangsu province. An appalling stabbing spree by a 21-year-old student unleashed eight deaths and left 17 more wounded in Saturday night’s attack at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology. Students should go there to learn and grow, not to die.
According to reports, the local police confirmed the gruesome casualty toll in Yixing. The horror struck just days after yet another chilling incident occurred in Zhuhai city, where a driver drove deliberately into a crowd, killing 35 people and injuring 43. Incidents like these are hard even to fathom when they come one after another.
What happened in Wuxi?
There is no information on the motive behind the stabbing spree. However, violent acts in schools or universities are downright disturbing. Those places should provide comfort and create a relaxed atmosphere for the development of a child, but an event like this shakes the bedrock of students’ security. Personally speaking, I think something like this shows that such institutions urgently require better mental health support systems for their students. It’s because of this fact that if this student had been treated with some sort of emotional or psychological intervention, maybe this tragedy may not have happened.
The Earlier Hit-and-Run Incident in Zhuhai
This has happened at a time when another tragedy has occurred in Zhuhai, where a man – reportedly a 62-year-old man named Fan – drove his car into a crowd near a sports center. Preliminary investigations indicate that Fan was depressed by property disputes following his divorce. Certainly, nothing justifies what he did, but it does show how personal grievances can lead to catastrophic tragedies if not checked.
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The terrifying moments experienced by eyewitnesses during the Zhuhai incident will be remembered forever. A man walking on the track surrounding the stadium said that he just managed to jump aside while the car drove through people. Another witness said that the car was moving erratically, hitting people in different sections of the running track.
He was arrested on the spot; however, he was found in his car with self-inflicted wounds, trying to cut his neck and other parts of his body. He is now in a coma and thus can’t be interrogated. I wonder how sometimes people in distress or anger don’t think twice before dragging others into their misery.
What Can Be Done?
Here’s what I think would be needed going forward to ensure this kind of thing never happens again:
- More Effective Mental Health Intervention: Schools and communities need to have a framework in which people are helped to manage stress anger or even mentally held. For the most part, these kinds of incidents are rooted in untreated mental health issues.
- Improved Security Measures: In the modern world, educational institutions and public places need to enhance their security measures to stop such attacks. For that purpose, staff members should be trained to detect such warning signs of this violence.
- Counseling After Life Events: Major life events, for instance, divorce, make people address head-on their emotional turbulence. There should be easy access to counseling services that can help people cope healthily.
Conclusion
Those are not just numbers and statistics, but real-life stories of people who lost their lives and families broken. I feel very sorrowful for the victims and their families. It is somehow a wake-up call to focus more on mental health and community support.
What do you think of this? How do you believe countries can work to prevent these kinds of attacks from happening? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below—I’d love to hear from you.
Minutes by M31GlobalNews
