A junior high school student was stabbed in Tokyo’s Ota Ward on Wednesday, with a 61-year-old man arrested following the incident.
The 13-year-old boy was rushed to a hospital, but his injuries appeared to not be life-threatening.
Yasunori Yamashita was arrested on the scene after a passerby reported to the police that a boy had been stabbed at around 8 a.m. in Ota Ward’s Kamata district. He had blood on his hands and clothes when he was arrested.
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