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Rhodri wrote:Channel 4 is the UK's broadcaster for the Paralympics and they released this on facebook. Hell yes you can people.

TOKYO—Japan’s national broadcaster NHK reports that 15 people were killed and 45 injured in a knife attack Tuesday at a facility for the handicapped in Sagamihara, just outside Tokyo.

The report said police have arrested a knife-wielding man after he turned himself in.

NHK said the suspect, 26, is a former employee at the facility, Tsukui Yamayuri-en, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

Television footage showed a number of ambulances parked outside the facility, with medics and other rescue workers running in and out.

Kyodo News Agency initially reported that 19 people were killed and 20 injured, but later said at least 15 people were dead and 28 injured.

Police did not immediately release an official death toll.

The attack was among the worst single-perpetrator mass murder in modern Japanese history.

There was no immediate information about the motive for the attack, although the suspect told the police that he wanted the disabled people “to disappear,” the Asahi newspaper reported.

Among the injured, at least 13 people were in critical condition and were taken to hospitals in Kanagawa prefecture and in Tokyo, the media reports said.

The attack is among the worst single-perpetrator mass murders in modern Japanese history.

The stabbing took place in the Tsukui Yamayuri-en facility in the Midori part of Sagamihara, about 35 miles (56 kilometres) west of Tokyo. The facility was built by the prefectural authorities and is run by a social welfare service organization called Kanagawa Kyodokai. The people who live there have a wide range of physical disabilities. Some can walk and do outside activities while others are bedridden.

The facility provides both residential accommodation and daycare and has a swimming pool, gym and medical clinic.

Such bloodshed is highly unusual in Japan, which had one gun death last year. Just eight crimes were committed in 2015 that involved gunfire, according to police.

But there have been occasional high-profile stabbing incidents, including one in 2008 in the city of Akihabara in which seven people were killed after a man in a truck plowed into a crowd of shoppers, then stabbed several bystanders.

The death toll in Tuesday’s rampage was higher than in the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, carried out by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, in which 12 people were killed and 50 severely injured.

brythain wrote:We have 12000 members exactly, as of today. I remember when I was a new member couple of years back and we were under 10k. Wow, there's still growth!

brythain wrote:We have 12000 members exactly, as of today. I remember when I was a new member couple of years back and we were under 10k. Wow, there's still growth!