POLICE have apprehended the man suspected of killing three and injuring six at a kindergarten in East China’s Jiangxi Province on Wednesday.

The suspect, named Liu Xiaohui, 48, attacked the kindergarten in Anfu County of Ji’an City in Jiangxi at 10:22 a.m. Wednesday, according to a notice released by the Anfu public security bureau.

Liu allegedly entered the kindergarten wearing a cap and face mask while carrying an object with which he went on a rampage.

He fled to the mountainous areas of Zhongshe Village in Wan’an County, after the attack. Local authorities sent about 1,100 members of their police force to hunt him down. He was arrested at an expressway near the village. The suspect was sent to a local hospital for emergency treatment.

The Jiangxi Provincial Education Department released a notice late Wednesday, saying that all-out efforts should be made to treat the injured and reduce death from the incident, and that campus safety management should be strengthened at all schools, especially private kindergartens, to guard the lives of teachers and students.

(China Daily, Shanghai Daily)