China's Supreme People's Procuratorate today promised "severe, strict and swift punishment" for those who commit "heinous crimes" following a wave of indiscriminate attacks in the Asian country.
Last week, a hit-and-run killing left 35 people dead in southern China, and days later, at least eight people died in a knife attack at a vocational school in Yixing, east China.
On Tuesday, police in Changde city, Hunan province, arrested a 39-year-old man accused of running over pedestrians in front of a school, without causing any fatalities.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate has promised "severe, strict and swift" punishments for those who commit "heinous crimes" in a bid to "maintain social stability and enhance the public's sense of security and well-being."
In a statement released after a working meeting, the prosecutor's office said it would adopt "a zero-tolerance approach to crimes targeting students or compromising school security".
The statement stressed "the importance of prosecuting these cases decisively and quickly in order to achieve a powerful deterrent effect".
It also stressed that the country's public prosecutors have "fundamental duties" to "prevent and resolve risks" and maintain social stability.
And it urged prosecutors to resolve civil disputes at their source.
Whenever an indiscriminate attack of this kind occurs, the authorities refer to it as "revenge against society", which describes a situation in which attackers, motivated by personal frustrations, take out their anger on innocent people due to emotional, legal or economic conflicts.
The events of recent months have also raised controversy over government control of information, experts say, and they regret that there is not more public information available to find the true underlying causes.
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