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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Stuti Mishra

Chinese man sentenced to death for stabbing attack near Japanese school in Shanghai

Police officers patrol near the Jiangsu Suzhou Intermediate People’s Court in Suzhou, west of Shanghai, China - (AP)

A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced a 52-year-old to death for a knife attack that injured a Japanese mother and her young child and killed a bus attendant near Shanghai last June.

The attack, which took place on 24 June 2024 at a bus stop near the Japanese School of Suzhou in Jiangsu province, had caused concern about the safety of Japanese nationals in the country.

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