SAPPORO – A 12-year-old boy has admitted stabbing a woman on a street in Sapporo over the weekend because he “wanted to hurt someone,” the police said.
The first-year junior high school student was questioned after a woman in her 20s was seriously injured Saturday evening in an attack that is being treated as a case of attempted murder.
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