KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIAN police said on Thursday they have launched a manhunt for an attacker who rampaged through a kindergarten with a hammer, leaving three children with head injuries.
The man reportedly barged into a kindergarten in southern Johor state Wednesday, climbing over a fence and kicking open a locked grille. He attacked the kindergarten principal before turning on about 20 six-year-old children.
'We are still hunting for the man. We have mobilised about 100 policemen here to track down the assailant,' district police chief Mohammed Nasir Ramsli told AFP.
He said police had set up road blocks and conducted house-to-house searches. 'The three children are still in hospital but they are in a stable condition,' said Mr Mohammed Nasir, adding that police are still investigating the motive for the attack.
The Star newspaper said the man assaulted the kindergarten principal with pepper powder and hammer blows, before wildly swinging the weapon at children who were having breakfast at the time. He fled on a motorbike.
The three children - two boys and a girl - who were hit on the head received emergency treatment in hospital. -- AFP
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