Article: Woman arrested in deadly stabbing of two children in western Japan

CARL FREIRE, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
02-17-2006
Dateline: TOKYO
Police in western Japan arrested a woman suspected of stabbing to death two kindergarten children who were found Friday dumped on a roadside in a remote farming area, police said.

The woman is the mother of another student at the kindergarten, and was last seen collecting the two children from their home to drive them and her own child to the school, as she did every morning, Kyodo News agency reported.

The 34-year-old woman has not been charged, but police are investigating the case as suspected murder, Shiga prefectural (state) police official Takashi Yoshida said.

The children, a boy and girl, were found stabbed ...

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