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Japan knife attack 'leaves 15 dead' Japan Sagamihara knife attack: At least 15 dead, reports say
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At least 15 people have died in a knife attack at a residential care centre for the disabled near Japan's capital Tokyo, Japanese media reported. At least 15 people have died in a knife attack at a residential care centre for the disabled in the Japanese city of Sagamihara, local media reported.
Another 45 people are reported to have been injured in the attack. Another 45 people are reported to have been injured in the attack, which happened in the early hours of Tuesday morning local time.
Police in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, have arrested a suspect, according to Kyodo news agency. A suspect - a man in his 20s - has been arrested after handing himself in, police said.
He reportedly went into a police station and said "I did it".
Japan's national broadcaster NHK said the suspect was a former employee at the Tsukui Yamayuri Garden facility.
Details are still emerging about the incident, but the death toll makes it the worst mass stabbing in Japan in recent years.
In 2008, a man drove a truck into a packed shopping district at Akihabara in Tokyo, before climbing out and randomly stabbing people. Seven people died.
The attack occurred on the same date that a man with a history of mental illness stabbed eight children to death at an Osaka primary school in 2001.