A child receives treatment in a hospital in Taixing of Jiangsu province on Thursday.（Alexanderf.Yuan/AP)
Parents should consider taking extra steps to protect the safety of their children, a security expert said following the second mass stabbing of students at a school this week.
Safety around schools has been strengthened and police in Beijing will be on patrol when students go to and leave schools, and some schools in the city will not let students leave unless parents come to pick them up.
The latest moves come after a knife-wielding man stabbed 29 children at a kindergarten on Thursday in Taixing of East China's Jiangsu province.
Five of the children are in critical condition and the rest are stable. No deaths had been reported as of Thursday night, said Sun Yun, deputy mayor of Taixing.
Two teachers and one security guard were also injured after the 9:40 am attack.
An initial police investigation said the suspect, 47-year-old Xu Yuyuan, was an unemployed local resident who once worked in a local insurance company and was fired in 2001.
Zhang Hong, a professor with the Chinese People's Public Security University, said parents should let their children take school buses instead of walking or riding bicycles.
For children without access to a school bus, parents should take them to school and pick them up themselves, especially in a city environment where the security situation is not good, Zhang said.
