At least 19 people have died and 45 others were injured after an attacker stabbed victims inside a facility for the disabled near Tokyo.
Police responded to the Tsukui Yamayuri-en in Sagamihara at 2:30am after a caller said a man with a knife broke into the building, NHK World reports. Law enforcement officials arrested the suspect, who is reportedly 26-years-old, after he turned himself into police at 3am.
Officials said the suspect claims to be a former employee at the facility, which is located 30 kilometers (20 miles) outside the Japanese capital.
In 2001, a man with a history of mental illness entered a primary school in the western city of Osaka and killed eight children in a frenzied knife attack.
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