Mass Stabbing In Japan Leaves 17 Injured, 3 Dead, Including 11-Year-Old Girl

dailycaller.com ^ | 5/28/2019 | Whitney Tipton

[rktman]

Three people are confirmed dead, including an 11-year-old girl, from a mass stabbing that left 17 schoolchildren injured Tuesday in Kawasaki, Japan, a suburb southwest of Tokyo.

Ryuichi Iwasaki, 51, attacked the children with two knives as they waited to board a school bus to Caritas, a Catholic school, around 7:45 a.m., the New York Times is reporting.

Witnesses said the attacker yelled “I’m going to kill you!” before he began to stab the children. Three injuries were reported as serious, according to the Associated Press. Other medical details have not yet been made public.

Among the dead are a sixth-grader named Hanako Kuribayashi, 11, and Satoshi Oyama, 39, the parent of another student. After the attack, the suspect reportedly stabbed himself in the neck, dying from his injuries shortly afterward.

[rktman]

Update to earlier report on this. Kind of doubt we'll see what the attacker called out before the attack. Probably not an ah-lah snackbar type.

[AppyPappy]

Ryuichi Iwasaki, 51, attacked the children

[BenLurkin]

Witnesses said the attacker yelled “I’m going to kill you!”

Sounds like Alla Akbar to me.

[Mark17]

Probably not an ah-lah snackbar type.

Well, I was going to ask, were there any mosques in there area?

[rktman]

Sort of like buttagieg sounds like smith to me.

[ClearCase_guy]

Japan has crazy people, but very few Muslims.

[dp0622]

Stabbed himself to death in the neck.

Why disnt he just so that first?

Are there a lot of Catholics in Japan?

[dp0622]

Do

[nuconvert]

Wow. 1st I’ve heard about it.

[dp0622]

Do

[Jamestown1630]

It’s Japan. Sounds like a generic crazy person to me.

[rktman]

There was a post earlier today on FR. First update I’ve seen so..................

[Reily]

Doubtful, the number of Moslems in Japan wouldn’t fill a Hellary rally.

[Steely Tom]

Ryuichi Iwasaki, 51, attacked the children

Enjoy waiting for the day you are hanged, Mr. Iwasaki.

[dp0622]

That is small.

[SkyDancer]

Will the PM and her ilk in NZ wear Crosses to honor those kids?

[thesharkboy]

Enjoy waiting for the day you are hanged, Mr. Iwasaki.

They can hang him, but he's already dead.

[daler]

Hasn’t CNN connected this with the Trump visit yet?

[Yardstick]

These were Catholic schoolgirls, right?

I don’t know the cultural dynamics in Japan but I wonder if some sort of animus against a “foreign” religion was a factor here.

[LRoggy]

Good thing they have gun control over there . . . better tighten them up more