Eight students of a primary school in central China were reportedly killed and two others injured in a brutal knife attack carried out by a man who was released recently from jail, state-run media reported on Tuesday.

According to Chinese tabloid newspaper Global Times, the incident happened at around 8:00 am on Monday at Chaoyangpo grade school in the town of Baiyangping at Enshi county at Hubei province, on the first day of the new academic year.