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A man in his 20s was arrested Tuesday morning after fatally stabbing 15 people and wounding 45 others at a facility for people with disabilities in Kanagawa Prefecture, NHK reported.
The knife-wielding man carried out the attack at Tsukui Yamayuri-en, a facility for the disabled in Sagamihara, shortly after 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, local police were quoted as saying.
Kanagawa police said they arrested the man, who is believed to be is in his 20s, when he turned himself in at the Tsukui Police Station at around 3 a.m. and owned up to the attack. He is reportedly being held on initial suspicion of attempted murder. The man said he used to work at the facitlity, the police said.
The attack may be one of Japan’s worst single-perpetrator mass murders in the postwar era.
The number of casualties could rise, as Kyodo News reported 19 people were confirmed as having no signs of life, quoting local firefighters.
A neighbor of the facility, in a mountain vally area south of Mount Takao, told NHK that a man with blond hair and wearing black clothes was held by police.
The facility provides accommodations and day-care services for people with disabilities, and has a swimming pool, gym and medical clinic.
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