Eight dead in knife attack at China school: Police

 Eight people were killed and 17 others wounded on Saturday in a knife attack at a vocational school in eastern China, and the suspect was arrested at the scene, police said.

The attack took place in the evening at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in Jiangsu province, police in the city of Yixing said, confirming the toll.

The incident comes just days following an hit-and-run incident where thirty-five people were killed and 43 others injured after a car drove into a group of people outside a sports centre in China's southern city of Zhuhai.

Separately, a man apprehended by Chinese police for killing 35 people when he rammed his car into a crowd was formally placed under arrest on Saturday, state media said.

The 62-year-old man surnamed Fan drove a small SUV into people exercising outside a sports complex in the southern city of Zhuhai on Monday, according to police.

Police said Fan was detained at the scene but was in a coma after self-inflicted knife injuries, which prevented them from interrogating him.

"Zhuhai People's Procuratorate approves Fan's arrest on suspicion of endangering public safety by dangerous methods according to law," China's state broadcaster CCTV said.

"The case is currently under further investigation," it added, without specifying Fan's condition. Police said 43 people were wounded in the attack but not currently in life-threatening condition.

Agencies