A 10-year-old student attending a Japanese school in China’s southern city of Shenzhen died in the early hours of Thursday following a knife attack while en route to school the previous day, according to the Japanese Embassy in China.
The attack follows a similar incident in June in which a man attacked a bus used by a Japanese school in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou, Jiangsu province, killing a Chinese woman who attempted to save the students and injuring two others.
Lin Jian, a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry, said on Wednesday that the Japanese student was stabbed by a man about 200 meters from the school gate, and was immediately sent to the local hospital.
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