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.

Seven children and a teacher were hacked to death and at least 20 others injured today at a kindergarten in China’s north-west Shaanxi province.