Tokyo: 25-Year-Old Attacker Kills 7 People

By Charlie Brett
17:20, June 8th 2008
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Tokyo: 25-Year-Old Attacker Kills 7 People

Sunday, a 25-year-old young man drove in an intersection in the Akihabara district of Tokyo, killing about 7 people and injuring several other persons.

According to BBC, Tomohiro Kato, from Susuno, a town about 100km (60 miles) from Tokyo, drove a white van into an intersection full of people, knocking down several of them.

The police said that, according to witnesses, the man got out of the car and started to stab pedestrians.

The attacker told the police that he came there to “kill people,” stabbing passers-by randomly, reported Reuters. Tomohiro Kato said he was tired of the world and didn't care who was going to be killed.

Authorities informed that at least 12 people have been wounded and 7 killed: six men with the age between 19 and 74 and a 21-year-old woman.

Police arrested the attacker while the medical staff was taking care of the injured.

The Akihabara district has many electronics stores. On Sunday, the area is closed to traffic and pedestrians fill the district.

Seven years ago, a janitor from a Japanese primary school killed eight children with a knife. In 2004 he was executed. In January, a 16-year-old boy attacked 5 people, also with a knife, and injured two of them. In March, a man at a railway station injured 8 people with a knife, reported BBC.





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