Crazed killer slashes kindergarten children

Press, 5 June 1982, Page 9

Crazed killer slashes kindergarten children

NZPA Hong Kong A man wielding a pair of knives and chisels yesterday killed four people - and wounded 42. including ' 34 Children, in a path of horror from his home, to a nearby, kindergarten. - The police ■ said that the naan, aged 29, had stabbed his mother and sister to death before he left his home. attacked seven passers-by. then entered the kindergarten where two of the children were fatally wounded. '

The horror was only stopped by a police bullet that hit an arm qf the man, ■ who stabbed a policeman in the stomach in the struggle against arrest. A police spokesman said That two oF the -wounded were still in a poor condition. Eye-witnesses said that in-, side' ,the kindergarten, the assailant ran along rows of children, slashing them as r they screamed and cried in ) terror. When the first fleet of ambulances arrived, the kin-;

dergarten had looked like a butcher’s shop. Crying, terrified children were given emergency treatment by police ’officers and nearby residents, they said. In a police briefing a senior officer confirmed that the man had had a history of .mental illness. He was admitted to a . Government mental hospital in 1976. The man is being detained in a hospital.- Investigation was continuing and .the man had not been charged; the spokesman said. ■