China executes man for 2024 fatal stabbing of Japanese boy


A woman laying flowers outside the Shenzhen Japanese School after a 10-year-old Japanese boy was fatally stabbed on his way to class. - Reuters

HONG KONG: China has executed a man for the fatal stabbing of a Japanese schoolboy in Shenzhen, southern China, in September last year, it was learned Monday (April 21).

The Chinese Foreign Ministry informed the Japanese Embassy in Beijing the same day of the execution of Zhong Changchun, but did not provide details, such as when and where the punishment was carried out, diplomatic sources said.

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