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Beijing, Aug 17 : With a number of murder
incidents taking place in Chinese schools in recent years, the country
has decided to beef up security measures at schools and kindergartens by
next year.
According to China's Education Minister Yuan Guiren,
the country will ensure every school and kindergarten has at least one
security guard by 2013.
The minister also ordered schools to
hold one emergency drill each term, organise security courses, improve
security systems and strengthen security in human resources and
technology, China Daily reported.
In Nanping county in China's
Fujian province, Zheng Minsheng, a doctor, stabbed eight students to
death and injured five others at a primary school March 23, 2010.
In
May, 2010, Wu Huanming killed seven children and two women in a
kindergarten in Nanzheng county in Shaanxi province. Another 11 children
were injured.
In the few weeks between the two incidents, a few
other school killings occurred in other towns and cities including
Shanwei in Guangdong, Hepu in Guangxi, Leizhou in Guangdong, Taixing in
Jiangsu and Weifang in Shandong.
A total of 19 people were
killed and almost a hundred were injured in these incidents that
triggered a national alert for school safety.
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