Wake held for slain kindergartners

NAGAHAMA, Japan - Pictures of slain kindergartners -- Wakana Taketomo (L) and Jin Sano (R), both 5 -- are displayed on an altar in a wake held in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, on Feb. 19. The suspect, Zheng Yongshan, was arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing the two as she was driving them to a kindergarten in the city together with her daughter, who attends the same kindergarten. (Kyodo)

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