(3)Internet messaging trouble cited as motive in school murder

(3)Internet messaging trouble cited as motive in school murder

NAGASAKI, Japan - A car carrying an 11-year-old girl, believed to have murdered her classmate at an elementary school in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, is covered with a sheet on arrival at a juvenile classification office in the city of Nagasaki from a family court in Sasebo on June 2. (Kyodo)

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