On Wednesday, a 10-year-old boy of Japanese origin was suddenly attacked with a knife by a 44-year-old Chinese man near the Shenzhen Japanese School in southern China. The Japanese boy succumbed to his injuries on Thursday.

A 10-year-old boy attending a Japanese school in southern China has died after being stabbed on his way to class on Wednesday, according to Tokyo’s foreign minister, in the second knife attack near a Japanese school in the country in recent months.

One by one, they laid flowers at the gate of a Japanese school in Shenzhen, which was strikingly quiet even as nearby streets filled with children heading home from class.