An 11-year old Japanese boy was stabbed to death by an unidentified person near his house in Japan’s prefecture of Wakayama, Japanese media report.
The boy was found in a waste area not far away from his house and his school with a knife wound in his chest.
The murderer, who is assumed to be a 170 cm tall man of an age about 30 years old, disappeared from the scene. The police investigation into the case is currently underway.