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.

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

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

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).

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.

A 44-year-old man was in custody, the police said, after the child was attacked Wednesday. Other Japanese schools in China urged caution.

The attack on the 10-year-old boy was the second such incident in months amid a social-media campaign that has stirred up anti-Japan sentiment in China.

The 10-year-old was stabbed in Shenzhen during his commute to school.

Some of Japan’s biggest companies urged the protection of employees in China, following the fatal stabbing in the mainland of a young Japanese boy.