About 50 Chinese residents in Japan and others held a vigil here on Sept. 19 for a boy who was stabbed to death on his way to a Japanese scho･･･

One by one, they laid flowers at the gate of a Japanese school in Shenzhen, which was strikingly quiet even as nearby streets filled with children heading home from class.

A Japanese boy stabbed by a man while on his way to school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen died of his wounds earl

BEIJING/SHENZHEN -- A 10-year-old boy stabbed in Shenzhen on his way to a Japanese school has died, Japan's government said on Thursday, confirming the worst fears about an attack that has heightened anxiety across the Japanese community in China.

The assault echoes an earlier incident of violence in June, when a man attacked a bus used by a Japanese school in Suzhou, China.

A Japanese boy stabbed while walking to school in southern China on Wednesday (Sept 18) morning has died, the Japanese Consulate General in Guangzhou said Thursday (Sept 19).

The 10-year-old was stabbed on the way to school by the suspected 44-year-old assailant. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A 10-year-old student from the Shenzhen Japanese School was stabbed by a man approximately 200 meters from the school on Wednesday morning, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said. Responding to a media inquiry regarding the stabbing in Shenzhen,

A 44-year-old man was in custody, the police said, after the child was attacked Wednesday. Other Japanese schools in China urged caution.

A man injured a student of a Japanese school in Shenzhen in China's Guangdong Province on Wednesday morning, Japan's Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroshi Moriya said. The student is now receiving treatment at a local hospital. Local authorities took the attacker into custody and are questioning him, Moriya said at a news conference in Tokyo.