Chinese court sentences man to death over Japanese boy’s murder
Another man also sentenced to death on Thursday for stabbing 3 people
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ISTANBUL
A Chinese court Friday sentenced a man to death for stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese boy to death last September.
The accused, 45-year-old Zhong Changchun, attacked the boy on his way to school in Southern China, Guangdong province, reported Kyodo News.
The boy lost his life a day after the attack.
The attack reportedly came on the anniversary of the Japanese bombing of a railroad track near Shenyang, Liaoning.
The last incident is one of several knife attacks reported in China last year.
Another man was also sentenced to death on Thursday for stabbing three people, including fatally injuring a bus attendant and wounding a Japanese mother and her child.
On Nov. 11, a knife assault at a vocational school in Jiangsu left eight people dead and 17 injured.
Other notable attacks include an incident in September when a 44-year-old man stabbed a 10-year-old Japanese student in southern Shenzhen and another in June in northeastern China, where four US college instructors and a local tourist were injured.
