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<h3>Court officials stabbed in central China in latest knife attack</h3>

A man stabbed and wounded four court officials in central China on Wednesday, a newspaper said, in the latest of a series of attacks that have unnerved the country.

The man carried out the attack at a court in Shiyan in Hubei province after concealing a knife in a newspaper and was promptly arrested, the Chutian Metropolitan Daily said.

One of those stabbed was in critical condition, it added. Police were investigating.

Public sensitivity to knife attacks in China has been heightened by a series of attacks, including a mass stabbing at a train station in March 2014 in the southwestern city of Kunming that left 31 dead.

Authorities blamed that attack on separatist militants from the restive western region of Xinjiang.

Violent crime is rare in China, compared with many other countries, but there has been a series of knife and axe attacks in recent years, many on school children.

<h3>And in unrelated news, ...</h3>

Watchdog groups believe that actual execution numbers greatly exceed officially recorded executions; in 2008, 2009, and 2010, the Dui Hua Foundation estimated that 5,000 people were executed each year in China – far more than all other nations combined. However, the estimated number of executions fell to 2,400 in 2013. The precise number of executions is regarded as a state secret. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_China

<h3>As police in this country are being told, ... </h3>

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