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Same Day in China

BEIJING -- A man with a knife slashed 22 children and one adult outside an elementary school in Henan province Friday morning, China's worst such incident in more than a year.
The attack was reminiscent of a spate of knife attacks on schoolchildren that took place across China in 2010. In most cases, the attackers were unemployed middle-aged men, leading to speculation that the assaults stemmed from economic and social discontent.
Friday's attack occurred at about 7:40 a.m. as children were arriving outside the gate of Chenpeng Village’s Wanquan Elementary School. The suspect, Min Yingjun, 36, allegedly slashed an elderly woman as well as the children. Local propaganda officials said later that Min had a psychological illness.

Pictures uploaded to the Internet by bystanders show family members carrying young children with bandages on their heads. The local reports state that four seriously wounded children were transferred to other hospitals for intensive care.
The scene of the attack lies within the limits of Xinyang City, a mountainous and poor municipality 600 miles south of Beijing. The region is renowned for maojian, a bitter and aromatic green tea grown in the mountains. Xinyang is also known as one of the areas hardest hit by the famine that accompanied Communist Party agricultural policies in the 1950s and 1960s. More recent government policy has encouraged the adult population in rural Henan to migrate to cities to look for employment.

කාලගුණය හරස් වූ සා / පෙළ සිසුන්ට විශේෂ විභාගයක්

අධ්‍යයන පොදු සහතික පත්‍ර සාමාන්‍ය පෙළ විභාග‍ය සඳහා අයහපත් කාලගුණ තත්ත්වය හේතුවෙන් පෙනී සිටීමට නොහැකි වූ සිසුන්ට විශේෂ විභාගයක් පැවැත්වීමට කටයුතු කරන බව විභාග කොමසාරිස් ජනරාල් පවසයි.   ඒ අනුව ඊයේ (17) සහ අද (18) දෙදින විභාගය පෙනී සිටීමට නොහැකි වූ සිසුන්ට මෙම විශේෂ විභාගය පැවැත්වෙන බව ඒ මහතා වැඩිදුරටත් සඳහන් කරයි.

සුළිසුළං හෝ සුනාමි අවදානමක් නෑ

ඉදිරි පැය 24 තුළ දී දිවයින අවට මුහුදු ප්‍රදේශවල විටින්විට වැසි හෝ ගිගුරුම්  සහිත වැසි ඇති වන බව කාලගුණවිද්‍යා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව අද උදෑසන 5.30ට  නිකුත් කළ කාලගුණ වාර්තාව පවසයි. නැගෙනහිර, දකුණු, බස්නාහිර සහ මන්නාරම බොක්ක ආශ්‍රිත මුහුදු ප්‍රදේශ  තවදුරටත් රළු වන අතර තද සුළං සහිත වේ. සුළං ඊසාන දෙසින් හමන අතර  වේගය පැ. කි. මී. 40 - 50ක් පමණ වේ. දිවයින වටා වන මුහුදු ප්‍රදේශ රළු ස්වභාවයක් ගන්නා අතර විශේෂයෙන්  මන්නාරම සිට ගාල්ල හරහා ‍පොතුවිල් දක්වා වෙරළට ඔබ්බෙන් වන මුහුදු  ප්‍රදේශවල පැයට කි.මී. 60 - 70ක් පමණ දක්වා වූ තද සුළං ඇති විය හැක.   කොළඹ, අනුරාධපුර, මඩකලපුව, ගාල්ල, යාපනය, මහනුවර, නුවර එළිය,  රත්නපුරය, ත්‍රීකුණාමලය සහ මන්නාරම යන ප්‍රධාන නගරවලට ද දිවයිනේ  සෙසු ප්‍රදේශවලට ද තැනින්තැන වැසි හෝ ගිගුරුම් සහිත වැසි වර්ධනය වේ.  දිවයින හරහා විටින්විට ඊසාන දෙසින් හමන තරමක තද සුළං ඇති විය හැක.

NO MORE PLEASE

She loved students more than anything'

Vicki Soto

Teacher Vicki Soto, 27, died a hero on Friday when she was killed protecting her class of first-graders from alleged school shooter Adam Lanza, 20. 

Her family spoke out on Sunday, telling TODAY's Erica Hill about Soto's dedication to the children at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.

“She didn’t call them her students," sister Carlee Soto, 20, told TODAY. "She called them her kids."

James Wiltsie, Soto's cousin and a Fairfield County police officer, said the family was told that Soto died trying to save the lives of her students. “She was found protecting her kids," he said, "doing instinctively what she knew to do.”

While details are still emerging about exactly what happened, Wiltsie was told that Soto hid her first-graders in closets and cabinets once she heard there was a gunman in the school."[She was] huddling in the closet, trying to shield them from the spray of bullets,”  he said. Soto had been teaching at the school for five years. The oldest of four children, she lived with her parents, sisters and a brother, along with her black Labrador, Roxy, in a modest, Cape Cod-style home in Stratford, Conn. When asked what he would miss the most about Soto, her brother Carlos pointed to the mundane daily activities that would no longer happen.

Connecticut elementary school massacre: 20 children among 27 dead

Parents leave a staging area after being reunited with their children following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.,

A man opened fire Friday inside the kindergarten classroom at the Connecticut elementary school where his mother was a teacher, killing 20 children, as youngsters cowered in corners and closets and trembled helplessly to gunshots reverberating through the building, before the gunman took his own life.
The bodies of most of the children killed in the morning remained inside Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Friday evening, along with the bodies of six adults and the gunman himself, Connecticut State Police spokesman Lt. Paul Vance told "CBS Evening News" anchor Scott Pelley.
                                                            
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