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One dead in latest stabbing at a Chinese school

BEIJING - One person has died and six were injured in a knife attack at a college in China on Thursday blamed on a student suffering from depression, state news agency Xinhua said, in the latest violence at a Chinese school.

The student, whose family name was given as Wang, burst into a classroom in the southwestern city of Kunming carrying a knife and stabbed the seven students, one of whom died, Xinhua said on its official microblog.

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