A mentally disturbed woman stabbed a 2-year-old girl Friday morning in a shopping mall near JR Yokohama Station before being subdued by an off-duty police officer who happened to be at the scene, police said.
The suspect was identified as a 29-year-old woman from Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, who is being treated for schizophrenia. Her name is being withheld because of her mental condition.
Although the motive for the assault is not yet known, investigators suspect that the stabbing was a random attack, police said.