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Knife -wielding attacker kills 19 in Japan's mental health care facility

India Blooms News Service | | Jul 26, 2016, at 08:31 pm

#Japan #Japan attack #Mental facility attack #knife attack #Japan knife attack

Tokyo, July 26 (IBNS): At least 19 people were killed as a knife-wielding man attacked a a residential mental health care facility in Kanagawa Prefecture west of Japan's Tokyo city on Tuesday, media reports said.

The attacker has been identified as Satoshi Uematsu.

Local media reports said, he has been arrested.

"Police arrested Satoshi Uematsu, a 26-year-old former employee of the facility in the city of Sagamihara, as he turned himself in to a local police station at around 3 a.m., about 15 minutes after the facility staff alerted the police about the stabbing spree," Japan's Kyodo News reported.

The attack has left 25 others injured.

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