In the third attack this month, China has another mass run-over of children

Despite the censorship, the incident quickly became one of the main topics of discussion online, with up to 95 million views on the Weibo platform.

“How could something like this happen again?” asked one internet user. “There are a lot of people taking revenge on society lately,” lamented another.

Some analysts associate the rise in fatal attacks this year in China with growing unease and despair in the country due to the economic slowdown.

On Monday last week, a man killed 35 people and injured more than 40 when he drove his car into a crowd in the southern city of Zhuhai, in the attack with the highest number of fatalities in the country in a decade.

Authorities took almost 24 hours to announce the death toll and videos of the attack were quickly removed from social media.

Police said the suspect, identified by his surname Fan, acted “out of dissatisfaction with the division of assets after the divorce.”