Twenty-eight children were injured when a man broke into a day-care center in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province on Saturday morning and slashed at the kids with a knife. No deaths were reported.
The suspect, 41-year-old Yang Guozhu, broke into the day-care center in the city's Wuzhong District, at 10:40am armed with a knife, some gasoline and home-made explosives, police said.
He hurt 28 children and was about to light up the gasoline and explosives when police arrived and stopped him.
The injured children were rushed to Suzhou No. 2 People's Hospital, Suzhou Children's Hospital and the People's Hospital of Wuzhong District for emergency treatment. None of them was seriously wounded.
"There was a huge patch of blood on the street-crossing in front of the school, and the weapon used by the evildoer was set on a black briefcase," the Beijing Youth Daily reported.
"The knife was covered in uncongealed blood. The glass door of the kindergarten was shattered, and desks and chairs in the room were scattered about," the paper reported.
More than 40 children were in the school during the attack.
The children were sent to the day-care center by their parents, all migrant workers from rural areas who work on weekends.
The attack was the second assault on a kindergarten in as many months. In early August, a school janitor in Beijing stabbed 15 children, killing one.
Following that attack, the central government ordered an overhaul of kindergarten security, ordering schools to draw up safety measures and adopt a responsibility system for administrators.