Two people were killed and at least 16 others, including children, were injured on Tuesday during a stabbing spree near Tokyo, officials said.

Police in the city of Kawasaki identified the two victims who died as an 11-year-old girl named Hanako Kuribayashi and a man named Satoshi Oyama, a 39-year-old government employee, CNN reported.

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The victims were lined up around 7:45 a.m. local time at a bus stop near Noborito Park when the attacker began slashing pedestrians with a knife in each hand, according to a report from The Associated Press.

The suspect was captured and died from a “self-inflicted wound,” Japanese broadcaster NHK reported. Authorities previously told the outlet that the man had stabbed himself in the neck.

Japan is considered one of the safest developed countries and it has one of the world's lowest homicide rates, according to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime.

CNN noted that violent mass stabbings are extremely rare, the last one being in 2016, when 19 people were killed in a stabbing spree at a care home for disabled people in Sagamihara, south of Tokyo.

The latest stabbing coincided with President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE’s state visit to the country for meetings with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who called the attack “heartbreaking.”

"We must keep our children safe at all costs," Abe said, according to CNN. "I've instructed the related ministers to take immediate action to ensure the children's safety in going to and leaving school."

Trump also offered his sympathies following the attack.

“I want to take a moment to send our prayers and sympathy to the victims of the stabbing attack this morning in Tokyo,” the U.S. president said. “All Americans stand with the people of Japan and grieves for the victims and their families.”

— This report was last updated on May 28 at 6:30 a.m.