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Child and two women injured in suspected knife attack on Japanese school bus in China

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A small child and two women were injured when a man apparently armed with a knife attacked a bus at a Japanese school in Suzhou, eastern China, on Monday, the Tokyo consulate in Shanghai said.

According to a Reuters report, the Japanese woman was standing at the bus stop with her preschool-aged child when the attack occurred. Neither of them was seriously injured. A Chinese woman who was on the bus is in critical condition.

Police at the bus stop in Suzhou, eastern China, where the suspected knife attack on a Japanese school bus took place, injuring two women and a small child. Photo: NHK

All three are currently being treated in hospital, while the man has been taken into custody, the official said. Chinese authorities have not yet commented on the incident.

A receptionist at the consulate told the South China Morning Post that all staff were busy and it would be “inconvenient” for them to take further calls about the matter.

This is the second attack on foreigners in China this year. Earlier this month, four American lecturers from Cornell College who were there on an exchange visit were attacked in a park in the northeastern province of Jilin.

A 55-year-old man was arrested in that incident, but his motives are unclear. According to local police, the attacker was walking in the park when he “collided with a foreigner and then stabbed him with a knife.”

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said initial investigations into the attack in Jilin had shown that it was an “isolated incident that would not affect the normal development of China-US cultural exchanges.”

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