TOKYO - A 15-YEAR-OLD girl was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of stabbing her father to death at the family home in the suburbs of Tokyo, a local police spokesman said.

The junior high school student, whose name was withheld, has admitted to stabbing her 46-year-old father in the chest several times with a knife, according to the spokesman and news reports.

The girl dined with her father, mother and brother, 12, on Friday evening at their home, but the mother heard arguing early on Saturday and found her husband collapsed in his bedroom, Kyodo News said. -- AFP