At least 19 people were killed in Japan when a knife-wielding man went on a rampage at a care centre for the mentally disabled early on Tuesday July 26,2016, officials said.
Another 25 were wounded, 20 of them seriously, in the attack in Sagamihara city, 50 kilometres west of Tokyo, a local fire department spokesman said.
A 26-year-old man who said he was a former employee of the centre later turned himself in at a police station, admitting to officers: "I did it." Police said they had received a call from the Tsukui Yamayuri-en centre sometime after 2:30 am about a man armed with a knife entering the facility
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In 2008 in Tokyo a man ploughed a rental truck into a crowd of shoppers in Tokyo's bustling Akihabara district before he stabbed passers-by, killing seven people and injuring 10 others.
After that rampage, Japan banned possession of double-edged knives with blades longer than 5.5 centimetres (about two inches), punishable by up to three years in prison or a 500,000 yen fine.
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