OTSU, Shiga Pref. (Kyodo) A woman arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing two children in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, was turned over to prosecutors Sunday, police said.
Zheng Yongshan, 34, a Chinese national married to a Japanese man, was taken into custody Friday on charges of fatally stabbing Wakana Taketomo and Jin Sano, both 5, as she was driving them to a kindergarten together with her daughter, who attends the same school.
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