<p>About 40 students and staff of a primary school in China were injured when a security guard attacked them with a knife, official media reported on Thursday, the latest such incident of mass attack by disgruntled people in the country.</p>.<p>The incident happened at a school in southern Guangxi province, state-run China Daily said in a brief report.</p>.<p>Three of the injured are in serious condition, state-run <em>CGTN TV</em> reported. The man has been detained by the police and the injured have been sent to a hospital, it said.</p>.<p>The incident happened on Thursday at 8.30 am, at Wangfu Town Central Primary School in Wuzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.</p>.<p>A press release on the incident released by the Wangfu Town government said the alleged attacker was a school security guard 50-year-old Li Xiaomin, Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported.</p>.<p>The press release said "around 40 people" were hurt, including three severely injured – the school’s principal, another security guard and a student.</p>.<p>It said eight ambulances were sent to the scene, and all the wounded were sent to the Wuzhou city hospital and the town's health centres for treatment.</p>.<p>A video by Xiaoxiang Morning News showed doctors and nurses attending to at least 10 students with bandages on their head and bodies and helping them to leave the school building.</p>.<p>At least one student had to be carried out by adults and some students were treated with a drip.</p>.<p>There was a long queue of anxious parents waiting in front of the Wangfu government clinic.</p>.<p>One parent requested anonymity and said many of the injured pupils were from the preschool class, aged around six.</p>.<p>“Around 8.30 am, I heard loud screams and cries from the school as I live nearby. I rushed to the school and saw some pupils run out,” the Post report quoted a parent.</p>.<p>“A bystander told me a man with a knife is attacking the school. I rushed in to get my boy out. Fortunately, my son was just a bit shaken but not hurt,” he said.</p>.<p>The suspected attacker has been detained by local police for questioning.</p>.<p>Knife attacks by disgruntled people have been taking place in different parts of China in the past few years.</p>.<p>The attackers targeted mainly kindergarten and primary schools besides public transport to vent their anger.</p>.<p>In September last year, eight students of a primary school in central China were killed and two others injured in a brutal knife attack carried out by a man, released recently from jail. </p>
<p>About 40 students and staff of a primary school in China were injured when a security guard attacked them with a knife, official media reported on Thursday, the latest such incident of mass attack by disgruntled people in the country.</p>.<p>The incident happened at a school in southern Guangxi province, state-run China Daily said in a brief report.</p>.<p>Three of the injured are in serious condition, state-run <em>CGTN TV</em> reported. The man has been detained by the police and the injured have been sent to a hospital, it said.</p>.<p>The incident happened on Thursday at 8.30 am, at Wangfu Town Central Primary School in Wuzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.</p>.<p>A press release on the incident released by the Wangfu Town government said the alleged attacker was a school security guard 50-year-old Li Xiaomin, Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported.</p>.<p>The press release said "around 40 people" were hurt, including three severely injured – the school’s principal, another security guard and a student.</p>.<p>It said eight ambulances were sent to the scene, and all the wounded were sent to the Wuzhou city hospital and the town's health centres for treatment.</p>.<p>A video by Xiaoxiang Morning News showed doctors and nurses attending to at least 10 students with bandages on their head and bodies and helping them to leave the school building.</p>.<p>At least one student had to be carried out by adults and some students were treated with a drip.</p>.<p>There was a long queue of anxious parents waiting in front of the Wangfu government clinic.</p>.<p>One parent requested anonymity and said many of the injured pupils were from the preschool class, aged around six.</p>.<p>“Around 8.30 am, I heard loud screams and cries from the school as I live nearby. I rushed to the school and saw some pupils run out,” the Post report quoted a parent.</p>.<p>“A bystander told me a man with a knife is attacking the school. I rushed in to get my boy out. Fortunately, my son was just a bit shaken but not hurt,” he said.</p>.<p>The suspected attacker has been detained by local police for questioning.</p>.<p>Knife attacks by disgruntled people have been taking place in different parts of China in the past few years.</p>.<p>The attackers targeted mainly kindergarten and primary schools besides public transport to vent their anger.</p>.<p>In September last year, eight students of a primary school in central China were killed and two others injured in a brutal knife attack carried out by a man, released recently from jail. </p>