Boy fatally stabs teacher

Tokyo - A 13-year-old Japanese boy stabbed a woman teacher to death after she asked why he was late for her English class, police…

Tokyo - A 13-year-old Japanese boy stabbed a woman teacher to death after she asked why he was late for her English class, police said yesterday. The 26-year-old teacher was stabbed several times in the chest and back with a camping knife and died soon after being taken to a nearby hospital, said a police spokesman in Tochigi Prefecture, near Tokyo.

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