Most of the victims were schoolgirls who were lined up at a bus stop near Noborito Park in the city of Kawasaki when the man in his 40s or 50s, carrying a knife in each hand, began slashing them.
An official at the Kawasaki city office told the AP that 16 people, most of them schoolgirls, were wounded and three others, including the attacker, were believed to have died.
The official said three of the injuries were serious and 13 others were not life-threatening.
NHK national television, quoting police, said that the suspect died after cutting himself in the neck.
Police would not immediately confirm the specifics of that report.
Most of the victims attended a private school founded by Soeurs de la Charite de Quebec, an organisation of Catholic nuns in Quebec City in Canada.
A witness told the Mainichi newspaper that he heard children shrieking after walking past a bus, and when he turned around, he saw a man wielding a knife in each hand, screaming “I will kill you” and that several children were on the ground.
NHK, citing police, said that a bus driver told officials that a man holding a knife in each hand walked toward the bus and started slashing children.
NHK also interviewed a witness who said he saw the suspect trying to force his way onto a bus.
The attacker’s identity and motives were not immediately known.
Television footage showed emergency workers giving…
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