SENDAI (Kyodo) A man splashed kerosene on a 14-year-old boy on a street in Sendai, police said Monday.
The man approached the junior high school student, who was on his way to school, and splashed kerosene on him. The man showed him a lighter but ran away without setting light to the fuel, they said.
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