9-yr-old boy suffers head injury in knife attack in central Japan

A 9-year-old boy suffered a serious head wound of about 20 centimeters and a fractured skull in a knife attack on his way home from school in central Japan, local authorities said Wednesday. Police arrested a teenager on the spot.Firefighters received an emergency call from a woman at around 3:50 p.m. Tuesday saying she had found the boy lying on a road in Fujieda in Shizuoka Prefecture, about 300 meters from Takasu Minami Elementary School.Some other pupils who were on their way home with the victim fled after the attack and ran back to the school, the local education board said, adding t…READ FULL ARTICLE