A 25-year-old man said to have been "tired" of life went on a killing rampage in a busy shopping area in central Tokyo on Sunday, plowing his truck into a crowd of pedestrians before stabbing passers-by with a survival knife. Seven people died and 11 others were injured in the attack...The police identified the attacker as Tomohiro Kato, who was living by himself in a small apartment in Shizuoka, a prefecture just west of Tokyo. According to the Japanese media, Kato told the police that he had grown "tired" of life, "hated the world" and had gone to Akihabara to kill people.
This picture, taken by a pedestrian, shows Tomohiro Kato being arrested by policemen in Tokyo's Akihabara district. A man went on a stabbing spree in a Tokyo neighbourhood famed for comic-book subculture, killing at least seven people and leaving around a dozen injured in Japan's deadliest crime in years.[photo via france24]
According to James Slaymaker, a British man working in Japan, got to the area shortly after the stabbings. He described the scene to BBC News,
As I walked down the street, I noticed there were a lot of police cars. I noticed there was a guy literally just lying there with tape on his eyes and blood pouring out of the side of him. I was appalled. I could see carnage - bodies everywhere. Some were conscious, some were not, lying by the side of the road and on the road. There were people everywhere, a lot of onlookers.
This picture, taken by a pedestrian, shows Tomohiro Kato being arrested by policemen on a street at Tokyo's Akihabara electronic district. Kato went on a stabbing spree in a Tokyo neighbourhood famed for comic-book subculture, killing at least seven people and leaving around a dozen injured in Japan's deadliest crime in years. [photo via france24]
More photos at Japan Probe.
News coverage at Youtube ("アキバ通り魔逮捕映像").
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Update: More updates at this link.
How tragic! Poor people just going about their everyday lives and then to have this happen is just so sad. My heart goes out to them and their families.
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