Knife attack at Wuxi Vocational Institute leaves eight dead in Yixing, Jiangsu. Suspect Xu confesses; police investigate further.

Eight people were killed and 17 others wounded Saturday in a knife attack at a vocational school in eastern China, and the suspect -- a former student -- has been arrested, police said.

A former student went on a stabbing rampage at a vocational college in eastern China, killing eight people and injuring 17, police said on Sunday, just days after the deadliest mass killing in the country in a decade shocked Chinese society.