A former alloy armed with a large blade killed eight young kids and harmed five others currently at an facile propagandize in eastern China, a internal central said.
The attacker was arrested after the early sunrise attack, Xinhua News Agency said.
He is a former village hospital alloy with a story of mental health problems, pronounced a man surnamed Wu in the Nanping city supervision office, who would not give his full name.
Eight young kids from Nanping City Experimental Elementary School were killed, and five were being treated with colour at a hospital, Mr Wu said. Six died at the scene.
The attacker, who is 41 or 42, had quiescent from his post at the village clinic, Mr Wu said, but he wasnt certain when.
The school, located in Fujian province, was sealed and students were sent home.
China has witnessed a array of propagandize attacks over the past multiform years, that are mostly blamed on personal grudges or people with psychiatric problems, heading to calls for softened security.