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Ambulance vehicles and fire trucks are seen outside a facility for the handicapped in Sagamihara, outside Tokyo. (source: AP)
At least 19 people were killed and about 20 wounded in a knife attack Tuesday at the facility just outside Tokyo in the worst mass killing in generations in Japan.
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Journalists gather in front of Tsukui Yamayuri-en, a facility for the handicapped. (source: AP)
Police said they responded to a call at about 2:30 a.m. from an employee saying something horrible was happening at the facility in the city of Sagamihara, 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Tokyo.
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Police officers standing guard are reflected on a road mirror near the Tsukui Yamayuri-en, a facility for the handicapped. (source: AP)
A man turned himself in at a police station about two hours later, police in Sagamihara said. He left the knife in his car when he entered the station. He has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and trespassing.
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A police officer talks with visitors in front of a facility for the handicapped where a number of people were killed and dozens injured in a knife attack Tuesday. (Kyodo News via AP)
Officials in Kanagawa prefecture, which borders Tokyo, identified the suspect as Satoshi Uematsu, and said he had worked at the facility until February. Japanese media reports said he was 26 years old.
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Police investigators check at Tsukui Yamayuri-en, a facility for the handicapped where a number of people were killed and dozens injured in a knife attack. (source: AP)
The attacker entered the building about 2:10 a.m. by breaking a glass window on the first floor of a residential building at the facility, Shinya Sakuma, head of prefectural health and welfare division, said.
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Ambulance crew and firefighters work outside a facility for the handicapped on Tuesday. (Kyodo News via AP)
The Sagamihara City fire department says that 19 people were confirmed dead in the attack. The fire department said doctors at the scene confirmed the deaths.
The death toll could make this the worst mass killing in Japan in the post-World War II era.
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Journalists gather around the Tsukui Police Station to which a suspect of a knife attack at a facility for the handicapped turned himself in early Tuesday, in Sagamihara, just outside Tokyo. (source: AP)
Mass killings are relatively rare in Japan, which has extremely strict gun-control laws. In 2008, seven people were killed by a man who slammed a truck into a crowd of people in central Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district and then stabbed passers-by.
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A police officer stands guard near a facility for the disabled, where a deadly attack by a knife-wielding man took place, in Sagamihara, Japan. (source: Reuters)
The facility, called the Tsukui Yamayuri-en, is home to about 150 adult residents who have mental disabilities.
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