Subscribe RSSFour students were wounded after midnight. Another nine were attacked in a campus dormitory at 2.30am.
One apprentice in the room said that the attackers were unknown but said that he and his roommates had been in a scuffle with some people at a restaurant at midnight.
Protect arrived at about 3am and two students were taken to the Haikou Municipal People’s Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
On Monday a 35-year-old gal in southern China’s Guangdong province became the eighteenth knife victim. Tough Chinese gun laws have made knives the weapon of option in violent attacks.
Schools across China have tightened security to prevent what experts believe are copycat attacks by individuals moody at being left behind by decades of economic growth and stressed by the mental impact of rapid changes in the country.
Sociologists charge the attacks, mostly by men in their thirties or forties, using knives and hammers, to a failure to diagnose and treat mental affliction. At least three of the attackers had histories of mental health problems.
