TOKYO – At least 19 people were killed and 25 injured – 20 of them seriously – during a stabbing rampage at a home for the disabled outside Tokyo early Tuesday (July 26), in one of the most brutal attacks in post-war Japan.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters there was no evidence so far to suggest a link between the attack and Islamic extremism.
The suspect, 26-year-old Satoshi Uematsu, is said to have turned himself in to the police at about 3am local time (2am Singapore time). This was half an hour after staff at the Tsukui Yamayuri En (Tsukui Lily Garden) called the police, at 2.30am.
“I did it,” the man, who was wearing a black T-shirt, reportedly told the police. “It would be better if all the disabled in the world were gotten rid off.”
Uematsu has been charged with murder. He is said to be unemployed and is a former employee of the facility in Sagamihara, located about 40km south-west of Tokyo. Japanese news reports said he did not have a knife on him when he confessed to the attack, as he had left it in his car before he entered the police station.
Uematsu reportedly jumped over a locked gate and entered the care home by breaking a first-floor glass window. A hammer was found nearby.
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters there was no evidence so far to suggest a link between the attack and Islamic extremism.
The suspect, 26-year-old Satoshi Uematsu, is said to have turned himself in to the police at about 3am local time (2am Singapore time). This was half an hour after staff at the Tsukui Yamayuri En (Tsukui Lily Garden) called the police, at 2.30am.
“I did it,” the man, who was wearing a black T-shirt, reportedly told the police. “It would be better if all the disabled in the world were gotten rid off.”
Uematsu has been charged with murder. He is said to be unemployed and is a former employee of the facility in Sagamihara, located about 40km south-west of Tokyo. Japanese news reports said he did not have a knife on him when he confessed to the attack, as he had left it in his car before he entered the police station.
Uematsu reportedly jumped over a locked gate and entered the care home by breaking a first-floor glass window. A hammer was found nearby.
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