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The suspect allegedly carried a knife in each hand screaming "I will kill you" before targeting the bus stop in Kawasaki city.

Most of the 16 injured are schoolgirls, aged six and seven years old.

The man killed is understood to be in his 30s.

Three of the injured school girls are reported to be in a serious condition, with the remaining 13 are not thought to be in a life-threatening condition.

Tragically, one schoolgirl has been reported dead.

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Paramedics raced the victims to a nearby hospital shortly after the harrowing knife attack.

The suspect, believed to be in his 40s or 50s, was detained on the spot and was badly hurt after stabbing himself in the neck.

He was later confirmed to have also died.

Initial reports claimed multiple people had died before the figure was revised to two fatalities.

Two knives were discovered shortly after the mass stabbing.

A spokesman for the Kawasaki City Fire Department said: “More than four primary school students were stabbed in a street in Noto Shinmachi, Tama-ku, Kawasaki.”

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Witnesses described the shocking moment the attack happened.

A man, who lived near where the stabbing took place, told local media: “In the morning there was a loud noise from fire engines, then I saw a man covered in blood fall to the ground.

“There was a primary school bus, children had fallen over and their bags were scattered all over the place.

“A man fell close to the bus stop several yards away from the school and was covered in blood. This is such a peaceful place and it’s scary that this could happen here.”

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US President Donald Trump, who was visiting the country, offered his sympathies following the horror attack.

Violent crime is rare in Japan but there have periodically been high-profile incidents that have shocked the nation.

A stabbing spree on a school bus and a commuter bus in a Tokyo suburb in 2010 injured more than a dozen people.

Two years earlier, a 28-year-old man drove a truck into a crowded pedestrian crossing in Tokyo, killing three people, and then fatally stabbed four more.