{"id":312662,"date":"2019-05-28T06:07:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T06:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312662"},"modified":"2019-09-07T09:31:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T09:31:29","slug":"2-dead-several-injured-in-japan-mass-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/2-dead-several-injured-in-japan-mass-stabbing\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead, several injured in Japan Mass Stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two people were killed and at least 17 people including more than a dozen schoolgirls were wounded after a man armed with a knife went on a stabbing rampage at a crowded bus stop near Tokyo on Tuesday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the sources, a primary schoolgirl and man in his 30s had died. The attacker also died after reportedly stabbing himself following the attack near a park in the city of Kawasaki, south of the capital.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of the victims were schoolgirls aged six or seven who were lined up at a bus stop, when the man began slashing them with knives.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the witnesses, the suspect was holding a knife in each hand and began stabbing his victims as they waited to board a bus and also shouted that he was \u201cgoing to kill\u201d the children.<\/span><\/p>\n

The man\u2019s identity and motives were not immediately known.<\/span><\/p>\n

Television footage showed multiple police cars, ambulances and fire engines at the scene. Emergency medical tents were put up to treat the injured.<\/span><\/p>\n

Japan\u00a0has one of the lowest rates of crime in the world. Mass attacks are rare, but it has experienced deadly attacks involving knives.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2016, a man who claimed he wanted to kill people with disabilities\u00a0killed 19 people\u00a0and injured more than 20.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two people were killed and at least 17 people including more than a dozen schoolgirls were wounded after a man armed with a knife went on a stabbing rampage at a crowded bus stop near Tokyo on Tuesday morning. According to the sources, a primary schoolgirl and man in his 30s had died. The attacker […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":312663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[2507,11416],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312664,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312662\/revisions\/312664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}