Mizhi County middle school stabbing

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Mizhi County middle school stabbing
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Zhao at trial on 10 July 2018
Location Mizhi County, Yulin, Shaanxi, China
Date27 April 2018
6:10 p.m. (China Standard Time)
Attack type
Mass stabbing, school attack, mass murder
Weapons Knives, dagger
Deaths9
Injured12
PerpetratorZhao Zewei

The Mizhi County middle school stabbing occurred at No. 3 Middle School in Mizhi County, Yulin, Shaanxi, on 27 April 2018. Nine people were killed and 12 were injured [1] when 28-year-old Zhao Zewei rushed into a crowd of students and began stabbing them. [2]

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On 27 April 2018, Zhao Zewei (Chinese :赵泽伟; born 20 January 1990 in Zhaojiashan Village) [3] arrived at No. 3 Middle School in Mizhi County carrying knives he had ordered online the previous month. He attended the school as a child and claimed to have been bullied there, and planned the attack as revenge. [1] [2]

Zhao waited an hour for students to be dismissed at 6:10 p.m. [4] and rushed at them in an alleyway with three knives and a dagger, killing nine and injuring twelve. [1] He was eventually subdued by teachers, students and security guards, and was handed over to the local police. [3] [5]

Aftermath

After Zhao's arrest he was deprived of political rights for life. The Yulin Intermediate People's Court determined that he committed the attacks to vent his frustrations about his past at the school and the circumstances of his life. Zhao was sentenced to death on 10 July [2] and chose to not appeal, stating in his letter: "I am sorry to the families of the deceased and their children, they have endured the greatest pain in the world. It is difficult for me to forgive myself for the pain of so many victims." [6]

Zhao was executed on 27 September 2018, by firing squad near a road in Mizhi County. Footage was released by Sina News of his execution. [1] [7]

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