Chinese court sentences man to death over knife attack outside Japanese school

Police officers patrol at the Jiangsu Suzhou Intermediate People’s Court in Suzhou, west of Shanghai, China, on Thursday (Tomoya Shibata/Kyodo News via AP)

A Chinese man who injured a Japanese mother and her child and killed a Chinese bus attendant trying to protect them in a knife attack near Shanghai last June has been sentenced to death, according to a Japanese government official.

A court in the city of Suzhou said Zhou Jiasheng, 52, stabbed the three because he was in debt and did not want to live any longer, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters in Tokyo on Thursday.