Student, 13, slashes classmate with a knife at Hiroshima school

Teenage boy slashes classmate with knife at Hiroshima school

A 13-year-old boy has slashed a classmate with a kitchen knife at a junior high school in Hiroshima, causing minor injuries to the victim, the local education board says, in the second knife attack to take place in a Japanese school this week.

Student, 13, slashes classmate with a knife at Hiroshima school

The attack took place two days after a 17-year-old high school student was arrested on suspicion of stabbing a teacher at a junior high school in Toda, Saitama Prefecture.

A junior high school boy in Hiroshima was slashed and injured with a kitchen knife... Perpetrator student “Anybody was fine”

[Yomiuri Shimbun] At around 8:15 a.m. on the 3rd, in the men's restroom on the 3rd floor of a junior high school in the Aki-ku district of Hiroshima-shi, a first-year male student (13) slashed a male student (12) of the same grade with a kitchen knife brought in from home. The offending student was intercepted by the teacher who received the report and rushed in, and slashed