One child has been confirmed dead after a stabbing rampage near Tokyo, with the suspected attacker also dying from a self-inflicted wound, local media reported on Tuesday. Previously, emergency services had said two people, including a child, were “showing no vital signs”, a phrase commonly used in Japan before death is officially confirmed. “A man stabbed them,” another spokesman for the department, Dai Nagase, earlier told AFP. “I heard the sound of lots of ambulances and I saw a man lying near a bus stop bleeding,” the man, who was not identified, told NHK. Japan has one of the lowest rates of violent crime in the developed world and mass attacks are extremely rare.

Source: Hindustan Times May 28, 2019 00:51 UTC