Convenience store worker fatally stabbed, assailant kills himself

A 45-year-old part-time worker at a convenience store in eastern Japan was fatally stabbed by a man Wednesday at the checkout counter, with the assailant later dying of self-inflicted wounds, police said.Mari Honna was stabbed in the chest while serving a customer in the convenience store in Utsunomiya in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, at around 4:35 p.m., they said, adding the incident occurred while she was attempting to break up with the man.The attacker was later identified as 41-year-old Hiroyuki Kawada, the police said, adding they plan to refer the case to to prosecutors on susp…READ FULL ARTICLE