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A CHINESE man shot and injured 16 young schoolchildren as they were doing their morning exercises, Xinhua news agency said today. It was the latest in a wave of school attacks to shock the country in recent years. The middle-aged man opened fire with several home-made guns at the children at the Niutoushan Primary School in impoverished eastern Anhui province yesterday morning, Xinhua said. Seven of the 16 wounded were in serious condition in hospital in the neighbouring province of Zhejiang. One man working near the school tried to stop the shooting but was knocked down by the gunman as...

ALARM - men armed in a school with Naltchik VLADIKAVKAZ (Russia) - armed men entered a school of Naltchik, the capital of the Russian Caucasian republic of Kabardino-Balkarie, and shootings were heard there, brought back a witness, questioned by telephone by AFP since the republic close to Ossétie of North.