A 10-year-old boy sustained minor injuries after an unknown man attacked him with a knife in Kita-Nagoya on Monday afternoon.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 3:20 p.m. as the boy was walking home. The boy told police that a man who was standing on the sidewalk suddenly approached him and slashed him with a knife, NTV reported.
Police said the boy received knife wounds to a finger on his right hand. The boy's pants were also cut. After the attack, the assailant fled on a bicycle.
The suspect is described as being a thin man in his 20s, and was wearing a hat at the time of the attack.
© Japan Today
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FernGully
Wow... What a coward. Glad the child is safe now, but who knows how this event will affect his worldview in the future.
Stewart Gale
Incidents like this are disturbingly weird. This loser could be a potential serial killer, let's hope he's caught.
sensei258
Why the attacks against children and the elderly, because they're cowards
bjohnson23
re: "The suspect is described as being a thin man in his 20s, and was wearing a hat at the time of the attack." ok that narrows it down a couple of million suspects.