Mass Stabbing in Japan Leaves 17 Injured, 3 Dead, Including 11-Year-Old Girl

Three people are confirmed dead, including an 11-year-old girl, from a mass stabbing that left 17 schoolchildren injured Tuesday in Kawasaki, Japan, a suburb southwest of Tokyo.

Ryuichi Iwasaki, 51, attacked the children with two knives as they waited to board a school bus to Caritas, a Catholic school, around 7:45 a.m., the New York Times is reporting.

Witnesses said the attacker yelled “I’m going to kill you!” before he began to stab the children. Three injuries were reported as serious, according to the Associated Press. Other medical details have not yet been made public.

Among the dead are a sixth-grader named Hanako Kuribayashi, 11, and Satoshi Oyama, 39, the parent of another student. After the attack, the suspect reportedly stabbed himself in the neck, dying from his injuries shortly afterward.