The suspect Zhou Yezhong allegedly killed his mother, wife, daughter, four neighbours and a migrant worker with a knife last evening in Jishui County, Jiangxi Province in southeast China.
Yezhong was arrested within two hours of the stabbings, the agency said. The reason behind attack is still unclear.The country has witnessed a number of similar incidents in recent months with the most gruesome of all being a teacher breaking into a primary school on April 28 in Leizhou city in Guangdong province to stab 18 students and one of his colleagues.
Published 09 May 2010, 06:30 IST