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A man wielding a TOKYO — knife killed at least 15 people at a facility for the disabled in a Tokyo suburb early Tuesday morning local time, according to a report by NHK, the Japanese public broadcaster.
Satoshi Uematsu, 26, went on a rampage just after 2:30 a.m. in Sagamihara, a town an hour west of Tokyo, according to NHK. Forty-five people were reported injured.
Just a half an hour after the attack, Uematsu turned himself in at a police station and was charged with murder.
Local police would not confirm the number dead or injured, or the name of the suspect.
According to reports in the Japanese press, the man was a former employee of the facility and broke into the building, screaming, “All the handicapped should disappear!” The incident is sure to shock a nation of people accustomed to living in a country with one of the lowest crime rates in the world.
The prefectural-operated facility, Tsukui Yamayuri-en, offers services to disabled patients including meals and baths, as well as arts activities. Residents stay overnight for short periods.
In insular Japan, Samagihara is a town with a sizable immigrant population, mostly from elsewhere in Asia. The city last made international news in 2012, when one of the suspects in the 1995 poison gas attack on the Tokyo subway system was arrested there.
Naoko Kikuchi, one of the most wanted people in Japan for her involvement in the attacks that killed 13 people and injured thousands, had been hiding in the town under the name Chizuko Sakurai.