日本殘疾人福利院砍人事件導致近20人死亡

At least 19 people are dead after a man went on a knife-wielding rampage at a facility for disabled adults outside Tokyo Tuesday, making it Japan's worst mass killings in its post-World War Two era.

Authorities in the city of Sagamihara, located about 50 kilometers west of Tokyo, say 26-year-old Satoshi Uematsu broke into a first floor window of the facility in the pre-dawn hours and began stabbing people. Uematsu later turned himself into the police and admitted to carrying out the attack. Several knives were found in his car, at least one of them stained with blood. News reports say he was angry about being fired from his job at the facility.

At least 20 others were wounded in the attack.

Mass killings are rare in Japan, which has some of the world's strictest gun-control laws, and typically involve stabbings. Eight children were stabbed to death at their school in the city of Osaka in 2001, while seven people were killed in Tokyo's electronics Akihabara district in 2008 when a man drove a truck into a crowd of shopper and stabbed passers-by.星期二，一名男子在東京郊外一個殘疾人福利院持刀行兇，導致至少19人喪生，成爲二戰後日本最嚴重的大規模殺人事件。

東京以西大約50公里處的相模原市有關當局說，26歲的植鬆聖在拂曉時分從福利院一樓的玻璃進去，開始持刀行兇。之後他向警方自首，承認襲擊是他所爲。在他車上發現了幾把匕首，至少一把還有血污。新聞報道說，他因爲被該福利院解僱而感到憤怒。

至少還有20人在事件中受傷。

日本的一些槍支管制法是世界上最嚴格的，大規模殺人事件在日本非常罕見，通常都是持刀行兇。2001年，大阪市8名學童在學校被刺死。2008年，在東京千代田區秋葉原電器街，一名男子駕駛卡車闖入購物人羣，並且向過路人行刺，導致7人死亡。