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.

A Chinese court has sentenced a man to death over the fatal stabbing of a Japanese boy in the southern city of Shenzhen, Japan's Kyodo news agency said on Friday, citing Japanese ambassador to China,

A Chinese man who wounded a Japanese woman and her child and killed a bus attendant trying to protect them in a knife attack in June last year, has been sentenced to death, CNN reported, citing a Japanese official.

A Chinese man who wounded a Japanese woman and her child and killed a bus attendant trying to protect them in a knife attack in June last year, has been sentenced to death, CNN reported, citing a Japanese official.

A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced a man to death over a knife attack near Shanghai last June that injured a Japanes

A Chinese woman who tried to stop the attack was killed and a Japanese mother and child were wounded in the eastern city of Suzhou last year.

The case was one of two knife attacks targeting Japanese nationals in China last year. In September, a 10-year-old Japanese student was fatally stabbed near his school in Shenzhen. The trial of the alleged perpetrator in that case only just began.

The sentence for the knife attack in the southern city of Shenzhen in September was handed down on Friday, according to Japanese media reports. It comes a day after another court handed a death sentence to a Chinese man who attacked a Japanese mother and child and killed a Chinese woman who tried to protect them in Suzhou province in June.