The assault echoes an earlier incident of violence in June, when a man attacked a bus used by a Japanese school in Suzhou, China.

A Japanese boy stabbed while walking to school in southern China on Wednesday (Sept 18) morning has died, the Japanese Consulate General in Guangzhou said Thursday (Sept 19).

BEIJING/SHENZHEN -- A 10-year-old boy stabbed in Shenzhen on his way to a Japanese school has died, Japan's government said on Thursday, confirming the worst fears about an attack that has heightened anxiety across the Japanese community in China.

The 10-year-old was stabbed on the way to school by the suspected 44-year-old assailant. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A 10-year-old student from the Shenzhen Japanese School was stabbed by a man approximately 200 meters from the school on Wednesday morning, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said. Responding to a media inquiry regarding the stabbing in Shenzhen,

China today expressed “regret and sadness” after a Japanese schoolboy who was stabbed in the southern city of Shenzhen died of his injuries.

The Japanese government says a male student at a local Japanese school was assaulted and injured on Wednesday in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen in Guangdong Province.

A 10-year-old boy enrolled in a Japanese school in Shenzhen has died after being stabbed by an assailant on Wednesday, the Japanese government said.

A Japanese boy stabbed by a man while on his way to school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen died of his wounds earl

A 10-year-old student at a Japanese school in China died Thursday after being stabbed on the way to school the day before, Japanese officials said.