Knife attack in Japan kills more than a dozen

Updated on Jul 26, 2016 07:40 pm IST

A knife-wielding man broke into a facility for the disabled in a small town near Tokyo early on Tuesday and killed 19 patients as they slept, authorities said, Japan's worst mass killing since World War Two. Japan's national broadcaster NHK mentions in its early reports that 15 people were killed and 45 injured in the fatal attack. The report also said police have arrested a knife-wielding man after he turned himself in.

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