YAMAGUCHI – A woman injured a boy with a knife in a parking lot in the city of Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Wednesday before attacking another boy and girl at a supermarket in what appeared to be random attacks, police said.
The children, whose injuries are not considered serious, were nevertheless taken to a hospital.
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