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Classes resume after murder case Fujian

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-03-24 11:31

NANPING, Fujian: Classes of a primary school in east China's Fujian Province resumed Wednesday, a day after a man stabbed at least eight children to death there.

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Accompanied by their parents, students began to enter the Nanping Experimental Primary School at about 7 am Wednesday while teachers and psychological therapists from different regions of Fujian were welcoming them in classrooms.

Mourning started at 8:12 a.m. as more than 2,000 students and teachers of the school presenting white flowers to extend condolences to those killed in the bloody tragedy.

"We'll always protect you," teachers told the students through loudspeakers, then giving each students a warm hug.

"It's my first experience in 30 years of teaching career. I feel so sad seeing many young lives passying away," said a teacher surnamed Shi.

Zheng Minsheng, a former community doctor in Nanping City, attacked 13 children at the entrance of the school Tuesday morning when crowds of students were arriving, leaving eight dead and five injured.

The school was closed after the attack and all students were taken home by their families.

Police were investigating the incident.