School guards take up posts as attacks continue

More than 2,000 school security guards took up positions at about 500 kindergartens, primary schools and middle schools in Beijing on Wednesday, but thousands of school-guard vacancies remained in the capital.

A school security team was set up by the Beijing Security Service General Company (SSGC) on May 12, after five brutal attacks against students during the previous 40 days.

The attacks, mainly by men wielding knives against young children congregating at school gates, led school security to be discussed across the nation.