Two Japanese citizens were killed in China following a "business dispute between acquaintances," police said, arresting a Chinese suspect.

The incident, which took place in the northeastern city of Dalian, was reported by the Japanese agency Kyodo, based on what was said by an official of the Japanese embassy in Beijing. According to the reconstruction of the event, the Japanese consulate general in Shenyang was informed on May 25 by the Chinese public security authorities that the two had been murdered.

The incident follows the September 2024 fatal stabbing of a 10-year-old Japanese student in Shenzhen, southern China, and a knife attack in June last year at a Japanese school bus stop in Suzhou, near Shanghai, in which a Chinese woman lost her life defending a Japanese mother and her baby who were injured in the attack.

Two Chinese convicted of the Shenzhen and Suzhou atrocities were executed earlier this year. A Japanese government source said the Dalian killing was caused by “a commercial grudge” and was “not politically motivated or sparked by anti-Japanese sentiment.”

(Online Union)

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