Knife Attack on Japanese School Bus: An Isolated Incident

A knife attack on a Japanese school bus in Suzhou, China, was described as an isolated incident by a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman. The attack injured a Chinese woman and a Japanese woman and her child. Local authorities and the Japanese consulate in Shanghai are addressing the case.

A knife attack on a Japanese school bus in Suzhou, China was an isolated incident and could have happened in any country in the world, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.

A man holding what appeared to be a knife attacked a bus used by a Japanese school in Suzhou on Monday, seriously wounding a Chinese woman and injuring a Japanese woman and her child, an official at the Japanese consulate in Shanghai said.