Three dead after Japan bus stop stabbing

Students leave the CARITAS Elementary School in Kawasaki after a knife wielding man killed two people at a bus stop nearby.

Students leave the CARITAS Elementary School in Kawasaki after a knife wielding man killed two people at a bus stop nearby. Source: AAP

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A man and a schoolgirl are reported dead as well as the man who's thought to have attacked them in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo.

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