Chinese man stabs Japanese boy to death outside school gate
On Wednesday, a 10-year-old boy of Japanese origin was suddenly attacked with a knife by a 44-year-old Chinese man near the Shenzhen Japanese School in southern China.
The Japanese boy succumbed to his injuries on Thursday. The 44-year-old perpetrator was arrested at the scene of the attack.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called the attack “extremely despicable” and said that Tokyo “strongly urges” Beijing to provide more explanations “as soon as possible.”
The boy was Japanese, with a Japanese father and a Chinese mother.
The motive for the attack was not immediately known. But some observers have already expressed concern that nationalist sentiments in China could lead to increasing violence and hatred of foreigners.
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