"Girl slits classmate's throat
By Audrey McAvoy in Tokyo
June 2, 2004
AN 11-year-old girl led a fellow sixth-grader to an empty classroom during their lunch hour, slit her neck and arms with a box-cutter, and left her to bleed to death.
The grisly murder at an elementary school in southern Japan yesterday sent shockwaves through the local community, leaving many asking how such a tragedy could strike in their midst.
Police identified the victim as Satomi Mitarai, 12.
They said she died of massive blood loss after being slashed in the neck and arms with a retractable knife used to cut paper and boxes.
Authorities took her attacker into custody for questioning soon after the assault at Okubo Elementary School in Sasebo, 980 kilometres southwest of Tokyo."
Linky poo:
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_...55E401,00.html
While definately not the world's funniest news story to bring up, for some reason, this was the first thing that came to mind when I read it:
