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20 school kids injured when hammer-wielding attacker rampages

By Yang Zekun and Cui Jia | China Daily | Updated: 2019-01-09 07:05

Students of a Beijing primary school and their parents were in shock that a maintenance worker attacked a group of children with a hammer on Tuesday after learning that his employment contract would be terminated.

The 49-year-old man surnamed Jia, from Heilongjiang province, had been working via an employment agency in the maintenance department at a campus of the No 1 Affiliated Elementary School of Xuanwu Normal School in Xicheng district. His contract was to end this month and the agency decided not to renew it, the Xicheng government said in a statement released on Tuesday evening.

Police said that Jia began attacking children with a hammer at 11:17 am because he had lost his job.

20 school kids injured when hammer-wielding attacker rampages

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