A man carrying a knife in each hand  stabbed to death a 12-year-old girl and a man before killing himself , in an attack near Japan’s capital . 16 school girls who were stabbed were seriously  wounded.

Most of the victims in the attack on Tuesday morning were schoolgirls who were lined up at a bus stop in Kawasaki city  south of Tokyo, when a man reportedly in his 50s began slashing them with knives.