A first-year girl at a Tokyo metropolitan high school in Minato Ward was stabbed several times, including in the side, and taken to hospital after an incident at the school in the early afternoon of the 30th. The Metropolitan Police Department arrested another girl in the same year group on suspicion of attempted murder and is investigating the circumstances, NHK reported.
The school is Tokyo Metropolitan Roppongi High School. The report did not say what condition the injured student was in, what prompted the stabbing, or how the two students knew each other.
Under the School Education Act, Tokyo's metropolitan government runs the capital's public high schools, and the metropolitan board of education sets their safety and student-support policies. The report gave no detail on what support staff were at the school or how the incident was handled on campus.