Locals left flowers in memory of the victimsKAWASAKI (JAPAN) - Two people including a schoolgirl were stabbed to death and more than a dozen injured in Japan on Tuesday in a rampage that targeted children as they waited for a bus. Seventeen more people, mainly young children, were injured, according to authorities who had previously given the schoolgirl's age as 12. "I've been in this area for a long time, I cannot believe that somebody targeted this bus and targeted these small children." Violent crime is extremely rare in Japan, and children often travel to and from school alone. The country has famously strict gun control regulations and gun crime is unusual, but there have been a few high-profile stabbing attacks.

Source: Bangkok Post May 28, 2019 14:15 UTC