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Two including school girl dead, 16 injured in Japan knife attack

A knife-wielding man attacked schoolchildren waiting for a bus in Kawasaki city of Japan, killing two including a school girl.

Police said that at least 16 were injured in the attack. Police have confirmed that the dead include a school girl.

The alleged attacker later committed suicide by stabbing himself in the neck.

The motive for the attack is unknown.

Police responding to the violent incident recovered two knives, said NHK.

A spokesman for the Kawasaki Fire Department said that an emergency call was received at 07:44 local time on Tuesday (22:44 GMT Monday) stating that a number of schoolchildren had been stabbed.

A school bus driver told NHK that he saw the suspect approach a queue of students who were reportedly waiting to board their bus to the nearby Caritas private school in a residential area in Kawasaki.

Footage broadcast on local news stations showed emergency services arriving at the scene and setting up medical tents to treat the wounded.

US President Donald Trump, who is currently in Japan on a state visit, offered his “prayers and sympathy” to the victims.

Japan has one of the world’s lowest rates of violent crime but in recent years has experienced a handful of attacks involving knives.

In 2016, 19 people at a care centre for people with mental disabilities were stabbed by a former worker. He reportedly said he wanted those with disabilities to “disappear”.

Eight students were killed in a 2001 attack after a man entered an elementary school in Osaka and began stabbing students.

 

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