Children Dead In China

A car rammed a group of students crossing a street in front of an elementary school in China's northeastern Liaoning province Thursday, causing an unknown number of casualties, state media said.

Police in China today arrested a man suspected of killing 16 people, including three children, found dead in a remote southwestern village, state media said.

Chinese security forces in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have killed 17 people, including women and children, accused of involvement in an attack at a coal mine that left at least 50 dead, US-based Radio Free Asia said today.

A knife-wielding man stabbed eight children and a teacher in a rampage at a Chinese primary school Monday, leaving at least three of them dead, reports said, in the country's latest attack against youngsters.

Eleven young children died on Monday when the overloaded van they were travelling in plunged into a pond in east China's Jiangxi province, state press and a rights group said.

Rescuers have found the bodies of all 18 children buried when a landslide engulfed their primary school in China as they made up classes lost due to recent deadly earthquakes, state media said on Friday.

Eighteen primary school students were buried on Thursday in a landslide in a southwestern Chinese region that was hit by deadly earthquakes last month, state media said.

A Chinese province urged parents on Sunday to seek immediate treatment for children showing symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease after official figures showed 112 people died from the illness last month.

A school bus taking primary students home slipped off a country road into an irrigation ditch in eastern China, killing 15 children and highlighting continuing safety problems in the country's school transport system following a similar tragedy last month.

A car rammed a group of students crossing a street in front of an elementary school in China's northeastern Liaoning province Thursday, causing an unknown number of casualties, state media said.

Police in China today arrested a man suspected of killing 16 people, including three children, found dead in a remote southwestern village, state media said.

Chinese security forces in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have killed 17 people, including women and children, accused of involvement in an attack at a coal mine that left at least 50 dead, US-based Radio Free Asia said today.

A knife-wielding man stabbed eight children and a teacher in a rampage at a Chinese primary school Monday, leaving at least three of them dead, reports said, in the country's latest attack against youngsters.

Eleven young children died on Monday when the overloaded van they were travelling in plunged into a pond in east China's Jiangxi province, state press and a rights group said.

Rescuers have found the bodies of all 18 children buried when a landslide engulfed their primary school in China as they made up classes lost due to recent deadly earthquakes, state media said on Friday.

Eighteen primary school students were buried on Thursday in a landslide in a southwestern Chinese region that was hit by deadly earthquakes last month, state media said.

A Chinese province urged parents on Sunday to seek immediate treatment for children showing symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease after official figures showed 112 people died from the illness last month.

A school bus taking primary students home slipped off a country road into an irrigation ditch in eastern China, killing 15 children and highlighting continuing safety problems in the country's school transport system following a similar tragedy last month.