Chinese court begins trial over stabbing of Japanese mother, child

A Chinese court on Thursday held its first hearing on a stabbing incident last June near Shanghai, in which a Japanese mother and child were injured and a Chinese bus attendant who tried to intervene was killed, the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai said.A Chinese man in his 50s, who was unemployed and who had recently moved to Suzhou in Jiangsu Province, was subdued after assaulting the mother and child at a stop for a Japanese school bus on June 24. The attendant, Hu Youping, 54, died from stab wounds days after trying to stop the attack.The hearing at the Suzhou Intermediate People'…READ FULL ARTICLE