Nursery gatekeeper slashes 15 children

04/08/2004 - 09:56:10
A gatekeeper at a Beijing nursery slashed 15 students and three teachers with a kitchen knife today, killing one child and leaving others terrified and “covered in blood”.

Two other children suffered “serious injuries” at the school run by the Hospital of Peking University, according to police.

A suspect was detained and identified as Xu Heping, a 51-year-old man with schizophrenia who had worked as a gatekeeper at the nursery for two years, police said.

Xu was a patient at a Beijing psychiatric hospital for five months in 1999, according to police.