translated from Spanish: Two dead, including a 12-year-old girl, in knife attack in Japan

The attack, a rare event in Japan, considered country As very certain, it occurred shortly before the local 08H00, in a place in the city in which many children waited for the arrival of a school bus.
Kiyoshi Matsua, deputy director of the Musashi Kosugi Hospital, told the press that a 12-year-old schoolgirl and a 39 man succumbed to the wounds sustained in the attack.
Meanwhile, the local press agreed that the alleged attacker, a man of approximately 50 years, also perished from the wounds he self-inflicted with a white weapon. The murdered man “is apparently the father of one of the children who were in the place,” said the television channel NHK, citing a police source.
Emergency services announced that at least 16 people were treated because of the wounds sustained in the attack.
So far the motives that led the unknown to perpetrate the attack are unknown.
“It is a truly heinous case. I feel a great anger. I express my sincere condolences to the victims and hope that the wounded will quickly reestablish themselves, “said Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a television statement.
A man who identified himself as Matsumoto, 25, told AFP that he heard screaming shortly after waking up and ran to the street to see what was happening. “It’s hard to describe how it was, how those cries felt. They were not girls having fun, it was a sound that was not normal, “he said.
“I saw a man lying on the floor. I also saw a girl on the floor. There were also five or six girls, perhaps they were the ones who screamed. There was blood on all of them, “he said.
The attack occurred at hours when the buses were full of people going to work and students going to schools. According to the fire department, the first emergency call came in front of 8:00 a.m. (2300 GMT Monday).
Shortly thereafter, the place where the attack occurred was cordoned off by the police. At least three police vans shut down vehicles, and it was possible to see ambulances and firefighters ‘ cars.
Among the wounded are “a woman of about 40 years and three girls, about six years of age”, who suffer serious injuries “especially at the height of the head and neck,” said Takehito Otsubo, deputy director of the hospital where they are being attended.
All of them “will be subjected to surgery and will be transferred later to an intensive care unit,” he added.
In the first images broadcast on television, many ambulances were seen and the experts had mounted makeshift emergency shops to deal with the wounded.
Japan has one of the lowest rates of violent crime between developed countries and mass attacks are extremely rare.
In the known cases, however, it is common to verify the use of white weapons.
In 2019, a man was detained in central Japan after killing a person stabbed and injuring two others aboard the famous bullet train, an incident that promoted the adoption of strong security measures in that line of high-speed trains.
In turn, in 2016 a man stabbed 19 people in a psychological support Center in southern Tokyo, in what he described as a mission to rid the world of citizens with mental problems.
In 2008 a 28-year-old man caused the death of seven people and injured 10 others by randomly attacking bystanders in Tokyo, initially atropellándolas with a truck to later use a knife.

Original source in Spanish

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