Posted on 05/27/2019 6:34:17 PM PDT by 2111USMC
At least two feared dead after mass stabbing in Kawasaki injures 14 more
YOKOHAMA - At least two people, including a child, were feared dead after a mass stabbing in Kawasaki on Tuesday morning left an additional 14 people — including many elementary school girls — seriously hurt, local authorities said.
Investigative sources said they had detained a suspect in the mass stabbing, a man who appeared to be in his 40s or 50s, who had also stabbed himself in the area around his neck. The suspect was unconscious and in serious condition, they said.
Authorities also found two knives at the site that appeared to have been used in the attack.
Scores of police, firemen and other officials were seen at the site in Kawasaki’s Tama Ward near Noborito Station.
“I heard fire engines coming in the morning and I saw a man lying on the ground bleeding,” a man who lives nearby told public broadcaster NHK. “I saw many elementary school children lying on the ground near a school bus stop. School rucksacks were scattered all over the place.
“There was another man lying on the ground bleeding at a municipal-run bus stop near the school’s bus stop,” the man added.
“The attack comes just three days after the US President Donald Trump landed in Tokyo for a four-day ceremonial visit.”
They just can’t resist.
It’s time for anti-knife legislation, ASAP! I mean who, outside of hibachi, and sushi chefs need knifes? Chop sticks are ichiban! /sarc
You just don’t hear of this kind of thing in Japan.
MUST have been Trumps fault.
The National Knife Association is responsible
Note here, nobody is thinking “Sudden Jihad Syndrome”
That says it all for Japan’s immigration policies.
From the country that firearms prohibitionists often cite as a great example of their ideals in action.
More likely someone lost his marbles.
When I was in Japan in 2016, a guy stabbed 26 people at a hospital.
A chair has better reach than a knife and was sufficient to pin him to the wall and end the carnage until the po-po got there.
Thanks
Holy cow! That’s a lot of stabbin’!
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