More than a dozen schoolgirls were injured and two people were killed when a man wielding knives near Tokyo began stabbing the group Tuesday morning.
The suspect, who is also dead, approached the group as they were boarding a school bus and shouted “I’m gonna kill you,” eyewitnesses told Kyodo News.
Police said the suspect, a man in his 50s, died at the hospital as a result of his self-inflicted stab wound to the neck.
Law enforcement found two knives at the scene and two more in a backpack believed to be the suspect’s.
Eleven-year-old Hanako Kuribayashi of Tokyo and 39-year-old Satoshi Oyama, a foreign ministry official and the father of an unharmed student, both died in the hospital from stab wounds to their necks.
The attack happened at the end of President Trump’s four-day trip to Japan.
“On behalf of the first lady and myself, I want to take a moment to send our prayers and sympathy to the victims of the stabbing attack this morning in Tokyo,” Trump said while visiting a Japanese aircraft carrier. “All Americans stand with the people of Japan and grieve for the victims and for their families.”
