One by one, they laid flowers at the gate of a Japanese school in Shenzhen, which was strikingly quiet even as nearby streets filled with children heading home from class.

A 10-year-old boy attending a Japanese school in southern China has died after being stabbed on his way to class on Wednesday, according to Tokyo’s foreign minister, in the second knife attack near a Japanese school in the country in recent months.

The assault echoes an earlier incident of violence in June, when a man attacked a bus used by a Japanese school in Suzhou, China.

A Japanese boy stabbed by a man while on his way to school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen died of his wounds earl

A Japanese boy stabbed while walking to school in southern China on Wednesday (Sept 18) morning has died, the Japanese Consulate General in Guangzhou said Thursday (Sept 19).

The 10-year-old was stabbed on the way to school by the suspected 44-year-old assailant. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A 10-year-old Japanese boy was stabbed near a school in Shenzhen, China. The boy's father is Japanese and his mother is Chinese. The Chinese foreign ministry has stated the attack was an individual case and is in communication with Japan regarding the incident.

STORY: Japan on Thursday (September 19) requested that China give a detailed explanation after a Japanese schoolboy died following a stabbing attack near his school in China. Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa confirmed in a statement that the 10-year-old died in the early hours of Thursday morning - a day after the attack in the city of Shenzhen.

Japan's ambassador to Beijing has asked for more security for Japanese nationals in China after a 10-year-old Japanese boy was killed this week in a knife attack that was the second to target school students.