Eight people were killed and 17 others injured in a stabbing attack on a college campus in eastern China on Saturday, police said — the latest in a recent spate of attacks that has shaken a nation long used to low rates of violent crime.

Chinese police say eight people have been killed and 17 others injured in a stabbing attack at a vocational school in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi.

A stabbing incident outside a school in Wuxi, a city in eastern China, has left at least eight people dead and 17 others injured, local authorities confirmed. The attack occurred on Saturday evening at the Wuxi Yixing Arts and Crafts Vocational and Technical College,