Update | 'Disgruntled dad' stabs three pupils and teacher to death in Chinese school

A knifeman stabbed three children and a teacher to death and wounded five more pupils before killing himself in a rampage at a primary school in Hubei province yesterday, the latest deadly attack in the country against schoolchildren.

The attacker killed himself by jumping from a building following the carnage at a school at Shiyan, Xinhua and other media outlets reported.

The wounded pupils, two of whom were severely injured, were being treated at a local hospital, Xinhua added.

A female teacher, surnamed Liu, was stabbed in the chest and stomach and died of her injuries hours later, Xinhua said.

The authorities said the attack occurred at Dongfang primary school in Yunxi county.

The attacker was identified as Chen Yanfu, from the township of Anjia.