A CHINESE man who hacked to death seven young children and two adults in the latest in a series of deadly assaults on schools lashed out after an argument over a nursery school lease, neighbours and state media said.

AN attacker with a cleaver hacked to death seven children and two adults at a kindergarten in north-west China yesterday, the latest in a string of savage assaults on the country’s schools. Eleven other children were wounded.

A man armed with a meat cleaver killed seven children and two adults at a Chinese nursery today, the latest in a series of savage assaults on the country's schools.