Student stabs uni professor to death

A professor at a Beijing law school was stabbed to death by a student on Tuesday, the third such attack in China in less than a month, the Beijing News reported yesterday.

Cheng Chunming, 43, a professor at the University of Political Science and Law, was attacked by a student wielding a kitchen knife as he was preparing to take a class at the Changping district campus.

Witnesses said the student entered the classroom at about 6:40 pm and stabbed Cheng twice in the right side of his neck.