Ministry condemns lye attack at kindergarten

The education supervision commission of the State Council, China's Cabinet, has asked education authorities in Yunnan province to spare no effort in treating the teachers and students who were injured after a man sprayed a corrosive chemical at a local kindergarten.

Fifty-one children and three teachers were injured at a kindergarten in Kaiyuan city on Monday after the 23-year-old suspect, surnamed Kong, climbed into the kindergarten and sprayed caustic soda on a room full of students and teachers, the local government said in a statement.

Two were seriously injured, but their injuries were not life-threatening, the statement said.