Japanese Mother, Child Attacked With Knife in Chinese City
- Attack follows recent stabbing of four US college instructors
- China says this is isolated event that could happen anywhere
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A Japanese woman and her child were attacked with a knife in a Chinese city near Shanghai, adding to a flurry of stabbing incidents in a country where violence is relatively rare.
An unidentified man attacked the Japanese woman and her child at a bus stop in Suzhou city on Monday afternoon, according to the Japanese embassy in China. The suspect, who appeared to be Chinese, has been taken into custody, the embassy said in a statement.