At least 15 people have been killed and up to 45 injured by a knife-wielding man at a facility for the disabled in Japan, Japanese media reported.
Police in Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture, about 40 kilometres south-west of Tokyo, have arrested a man in his 20s, Kyodo said.
Japanese media said staff called police at 2:30am local time on Tuesday with reports of a man armed with a knife on the grounds of the sprawling Tsukui Yamayuri Garden facility.
A man handed himself over at a police station half an hour later and said: “I did it”, a spokesman at Kanagawa Prefecture Police said.
Asahi Shimbun reported that the suspect was quoted by police as saying “I want to get rid of the disabled from this world”.
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And yet another attack in France....this time hostages taken in a church and an elderly priest beheaded.
These terrorists aren't doing their Muslim brothers and sisters or Muslim sympathizers any favors that's for sure.
Huh? Think you are commenting on the wrong article. This one is about Japan. Nothing to do with France or Islam...
This fills me with such anger and sadness. It was bad enough when 'our' minister referred to us as a drain on society, bad enough to face the constant stream of belittling comments made by strangers whenever I venture out in public - I can only imagine the grief, anger and hopelessness felt by the families of those murdered and by disabled people living with disability in Japan. How dare that hideous person say he wants us all gone, how dare he feel justified, he is a monster.