The attacker, a 57-year-old man whose name has not been released, also died after reportedly stabbing himself in the neck after the attack near a park in the city of Kawasaki, south of the capital. “I will take all possible measures to keep children safe.”The 13 injured children, believed to be girls aged from six to 12, are reportedly pupils at Caritas, a local Catholic school. Media reports said the attack had begun at about 7.45am near a bus stop at Noborito station in Kawasaki. Photograph: Jun Hirata/AP“There is another bus stop near the primary school and I also saw schoolchildren lying on the ground … It’s a quiet neighbourhood. In 2001, eight children died and 19 others were injured when a man forced his way into a primary school and began a frenzied knife attack.

Source: The Guardian May 28, 2019 00:18 UTC