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Aftermath of China school attacks

China school violence: People gather outside the gate of Zhongxin Kindergarten
29 March 2009: People gather outside the gate of Zhongxin kindergarten in Taixing, Jiangsu province, where a class of four-year-olds were attacked. A knife-wielding man slashed two dozen children in what an expert said was a copycat crime inspired by two other recent knife attacks on pupils at Chinese schools
Photograph: Alexander F. Yuan/AP
China school violence: A police officer enters a building where students were attacked in Taixing
A police officer enters a building where students were attacked at Zhongxin kindergarten
Photograph: Alexander F. Yuan/AP
China school violence: A child who was attacked at the Zhongxin Kindergarten is transferred
One of the victims is transferred into a hospital ward after surgery
Photograph: Alexander F. Yuan/AP
China school violence: A mother of a child who was attacked at the Zhongxin Kindergarten cries
A mother of one of the wounded children cries outside the intensive care ward
Photograph: Alexander F. Yuan/AP
China school violence: A man who attacked students at a primary school in Leizhou is arrested
28 March 2009: Police arrest Chen Kangbing, 33, the man blamed for a separate attack in Leizhou, in south China's Guangdong province. Fifteen students and a teacher were wounded. Chen was a teacher who had been on sick leave since 2006 for mental problems
Photograph: KPA/Zuma/Rex Features
China school violence: A student in hospital after an attack at a school in Leizhou
A victim in hospital after the Leizhou attack
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
China school violence:  Policemen guard the entrance of a primary school in Nanping
23 March 2009: Police guard the entrance of a primary school where a man stabbed six school children to death and injured another seven in Nanping, Fujian province. The man attacked the children just before school began. Police arrested Zheng Minsheng, 41, described as a middle-aged former doctor who had been dismissed from his job
Photograph: China Daily/Reuters
China school violence: Zheng Minsheng is given the death penalty in Nanping
Zheng Minsheng is sentenced to death on 8 April for the Nanping school killings. He was executed on 28 April
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
China school violence: A security guard stands at the entrance of a school in Nanjing,
A security guard stands at the entrance of a school in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, amid fears of copycat knife attacks. There have been public calls for more measures to protect students in a country where many couples only have one child
Photograph: Sean Yong/Reuters
China school violence: Police officers demonstrate with a teacher the use of defensive steel forks
Police officers demonstrate with a teacher the use of defensive steel forks at a school in Beijing
Photograph: Reuters
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