A Chinese man who carried out a knife attack in eastern China last June that wounded a Japanese woman and her child and killed a bus attendant trying to protect them has been sentenced to death, according to a Japanese official.

The boy, a 10-year-old Japanese national born to a Japanese father and a Chinese mother, was stabbed on his way to school on a morning in September last year. He died the following day. The assailant,

A Chinese court has sentenced a man to death for the fatal stabbing of a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy marking one of several recent high-profile cases of violent attacks on foreigners in China.