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Knife-wielding attacker kills 15, wounds 45 in Japan
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knife-wielding man has reportedly gone on a killing spree at a facility
for handicapped people in the city of Sagamihara, west of Tokyo, Japan.
Knife-wielding attacker kills 15, wounds 20 in handicapped facility in Japan
A knife-wielding man has reportedly gone on a killing spree at a facility for handicapped people in the city of Sagamihara, west of Tokyo, Japan.
(Kyodo News/AP)Local media said someone in the center in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, called police about 2:30 a.m. to say something horrible was happening.
About two hours later, a 26-year-old man turned himself in to police at a Sagamihara station, authorities said.
He said, “I did it,” local media reported. The man left his knife in his car outside, police said.
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He was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and trespassing, authorities said.
At least 15 people were killed in the bloodshed.
(KYODO/REUTERS)Japanese TV showed dozens of ambulances outside the facility in Sagamihara. The death toll makes it the worst mass stabbing in Japan in recent years. In 2008, a man randomly attacked shoppers in a Tokyo mall with a knife and left seven dead. In 2001, a man with a history of mental illness stabbed eight children to death in a primary school in Osaka.
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