Man sentenced to death for stabbings

A local court in Shaanxi province handed down a death sentence on Tuesday to a man who killed nine students and injured 11 others in a knife attack at a school.

Zhao Zewei, 28, who attacked the students near No 3 Middle School in Mizhi county in Shaanxi on April 27, was sentenced to death and deprived of political rights for life after being convicted of intentional homicide, Yulin Intermediate People's Court said.

"The defendant Zhao Zewei's criminal motives were despicable. The criminal targets were clear. The means of killing was particularly heinous. The consequences of the crime were extremely serious. And the social harm was enormous," the court said.