TOKYO, December 16. /TASS/. A 15-year-old junior high school student has died after she and a male classmate were stabbed Saturday while waiting in line at a fast-food restaurant in Fukuoka Prefecture in southwestern Japan, the Kyodo news agency reported citing local police.

According to the investigation, on the evening of December 15, the attacker entered a McDonald's restaurant in the city of Kitakyushu and stabbed the two teenagers as they waited near the back of the line to order. His face was visible during the stabbing but he fled the scene of the crime immediately. Police are searching for the attacker. The school student who survived the attack said that he had never seen the criminal before.

All extracurricular activities and events in schools and kindergartens of Kitakyushu have been cancelled.