Knife attacker in Japan kills 19 at disabled center

Knife attacker in Japan kills 19 at disabled center

A knife-wielding man broke into a facility for the disabled in a small town near Tokyo and killed 19 patients as they slept, authorities said, Japan's worst mass killing in decades.

At least 25 other residents were wounded in the attack at the Tsukui Yamayuri-En facility in Sagamihara town, Reuters reports.

The suspect was a 26-year-old former employee of the facility, Satoshi Uematsu, who gave himself up to police. He said he would kill 260 severely disabled people at two areas in the facility during a night shift, and would not hurt employees.

"My goal is a world in which the severely disabled can be euthanized, with their guardians’ consent, if they are unable to live at home and be active in society," Uematsu wrote in the letters given to the speaker of the lower house of parliament.

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