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Attack on children the fourth in two months

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Four pupils killed, 16 people hurt, in rampage by cleaver-wielding teacher

Children were due to return to Guangyi Centre School in Hunan province today - a week after a teacher stabbed four students to death.

Liu Hongwen, 28, thought to be suffering from mental illness, also wounded 12 students and four teachers in the school in Chenzhou , Linwu county, last Thursday.

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The attack, which was not reported by mainland media until yesterday, was the fourth on schoolchildren on the mainland in two months.

Students were scheduled to resume lessons at the school today following the week-long National Day holidays.

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Before being taken away by police, Liu reportedly told 64 students he had briefly held hostage: 'I am a good teacher. I am not a bad teacher'.

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