Chinese reports say 5 children hurt in new attack

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Source: AP

BEIJING – A farmer attacked and injured five kindergarten students with a hammer in eastern China before burning himself to death Friday in the latest in a string of horrific assaults on children at Chinese schools, state media reported.

The attacker used a motorcycle to break down a gate of the school in Shandong province's Weifang city, struck a teacher who tried to block him and then used the hammer to attack the children, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

The assailant then grabbed two children before pouring gasoline over his body and lighting himself on fire, but teachers at the Shangzhuang Primary School were able to pull the children away to safety, Xinhua said. The man died, but none of the children had life-threatening injuries, Xinhua said.

Xinhua identified the attacker as Wang Yonglai, a local farmer, but had no further details. A staffer from the Weifang Public Security news office, who only gave his surname Ma, confirmed the incident.

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1. "outbursts against the defenseless are frequently due to social pressures"

Or at least that's the one explanation the article gives for why this has been happening in China. I'm not really buying that explanation. They also say:

An egalitarian society only a generation ago, China's headlong rush to prosperity has sharpened differences between the rich and poor, while the public health system has atrophied.

China likely has about 173 million adults with mental health disorders, and 158 million of them have never had professional help...