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Man kills eight at China school

A man armed with a knife has gone on the rampage and killed eight people at a school in central China, state media are reporting.
The attack happened overnight in Ruzhou, a city in Henan province, the Xinhua news agency said.

All those killed are believed to be teenagers - four others were injured.

There has been a spate of stabbings in Chinese schools in recent months. In September, 24 children were injured in a knife attack in Shandong.

The man responsible for that attack was executed on Wednesday. The court said his actions had been "especially cruel".

Bunk beds

In the latest incident - the fourth in two months - a man, believed to be alone, broke into the school and stabbed the victims to death as they slept.

"It happened in the boys' dormitory. It happened around midnight," a teacher told the French news agency, AFP.

A government officials said those killed were all in the lower beds of bunk beds.

The attacker has escaped and is being hunted by police.

Worried by the violence, schools in the capital, Beijing, and other regions have begun employing professional guards to protect students, Xinhua has reported.