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Many Dead in shooting spree in Japan

A young man has stabbed to death in a home for the Disabled near Tokyo at least 15 people and several other people were injured. His motive is unclear.

At least 15 deaths and more than 40 injured. This is according to the latest media the sad balance sheet of a killing spree reports in Japan.

The offender was charged shortly after the crime at a police station. There, he said: “I’ve done it.” It was a 26-year-old Japanese. The man claim that he had previously worked in the disability residential home in the city of Sagamihara in Tokyo’s neighboring province of Kanagawa. He was invaded in the night to Tuesday (local time) in the system. His motive is still unclear.

Police officers in front of the scene of the crime

Fact shaken Japan

It is the most bloody rampage for years in Japan. In 2008, a man in Tokyo had stabbed seven people. The then 25-year-old Japanese was at lunch time at the world-famous electronics shopping district of Akihabara car crashed with a load in the lot, and had indiscriminately stabbed passersby. He was later sentenced to death and currently sits on death row in Tokyo.

Although the third largest economy in the world in the international comparison as a country with a relatively low violent crime. But have increased in the past few years, the number of Assaults with knives.

wa/cw (dpa, afp, rtr)