Chinese knifeman sentenced to death for deadly attack on Japanese school bus

Hu Youping died from her injuries two days after the attack. -- Photo: CCTV/SCMP

BEIJING (SCMP): A man who attacked a Japanese mother and child with a knife and killed a Chinese bus attendant who tried to defend them has been sentenced to death.

Zhou Jiasheng, 52, was found guilty of murder and wounding by the Suzhou intermediate people’s court in the eastern Chinese city where the attack took place in July last year.