Three children were killed and 13 injured when a man entered their childcare center in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and began slashing students with an axe. The BBC reports:
The man rushed into the centre in the autonomous region of Guangxi Zhuang in the middle of the day and began slashing the children, Xinhua said.
The age of the victims has not yet been reported.
A man identified only as Wu was later arrested by police in Pingnan county in connection with the attack.
A police investigation is now under way.
A similar incident occurred in a kindergarten in Wuhan in 2010.