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At least two people are believed to have died and 16 have been injured in a stabbing near a bus stop outside of Tokyo.
Key points:
- At least 8 of the victims were primary school students and 7 were adults
- Police found two knives at the scene
- The attacker has been detained
Police said a schoolgirl and man in his 30s were without vital signs, a phrase used by Japanese officials that suggests they have died.
Two others are in a critical condition. It is believed many of the victims were from a Catholic girls school.
The attack happened just before 8:00am (local time) in the residential district of Kawasaki City.
At least eight of the victims were primary school students and seven were adults.
Police said they had detained the man responsible and he had serious injuries after stabbing himself in the shoulder.
Officers reportedly found two knives at the scene.
National broadcaster NHK reported the man, aged in his 40s or 50s, began slashing at people waiting at the bus stop near a park.
More victims were found in a nearby park, as were the two knives, it said.
Violent crime is rare in Japan, but there have periodically been high-profile incidents that have shocked the nation.
A stabbing spree on a school bus and a commuter bus in a Tokyo suburb in 2010 injured more than a dozen people.
Two years earlier, a 28-year-old man drove a truck into a crowded pedestrian crossing in Tokyo, killing three people, before he fatally stabbed four more.
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