I haven't seen anything about this on ABC World News Tonight, which is my favorite news show because they give me 15 minutes with no ads. Also, I don't hear as much about politics there, thank goodness; it is mentioned, and then dropped for other news. But apparently, there are people in China who are killing strangers when they get mad. And they don't even have guns to do their killing! This has been happening over and over for three months.
Dozens of people have been killed in China in the past three months in a series of mass attacks. The latest on Tuesday saw primary school students struck by a car as they arrived for classes.
A small white SUV struck students arriving for class at Yong’an Elementary School in Changde, an inland city in China’s Hunan province.
A knife attack near a school in Beijing injures 5 people, including 3 children
35 killed as driver deliberately rams car into people in China
Knife attack at a vocational school in eastern China leaves 8 dead and 17 injured
Eight people were killed and 17 others injured in a knife attack at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in Yixing city, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) west of Shanghai in eastern China.
A man who authorities said was upset over his divorce settlement rammed his car into a crowd of people exercising at a sports complex in Zhuhai city in southern China, killing 35 and injuring 43 others.
A knife attack near a prominent primary school in Beijing injured five people, including three children. Police detained a 50-year-old suspect. No motive was given.
A 37-year-old man allegedly killed three people and wounded 15 others with a knife at a supermarket in Shanghai. Police said the man had personal financial disputes and came to Shanghai to “vent his anger.”
That's all I have today.
I wonder if their news is much like our news. Whenever an event like this happens and is widely reported, there will be several others in the same week reported, whether it be a shooting, airplane issue, or something else. I don't think that it is because all these things just started happening but rather they have always been happening but suddenly they are in vogue on the evening news because it drives up ratings and so they are reported giving the viewers a sense that this is happening everywhere when in reality, your chances of witnessing such an event are similar to winning the lottery.
ReplyDeleteMen, and anger, not a good combination. I had heard of the guy driving his car into the sports complex but not the others. It's a sad world we live in.
ReplyDeleteI saw was happening in New York, too. He carried a knife hidden and killed people for no reason. The world is sinking.
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