Hatred appear to be what fuelled a young Japanese man who went on a stabbing rampage, killing 19 people Tuesday at a facility for the mentally disabled where he had been fired.
Updated: July 26, 2016, 12:00 AM
19 killed in Japan knife rampage — in pictures
Police investigators cover the entrance of the Tsukui Yamayuri-en, a care home for the disabled where a number of people were killed and dozens injured in a knife attack in Sagamihara, outside Tokyo on Tuesday. Eugene Hoshiko / AP Photo
Governor of Japan’s Kanagawa prefecture Yuji Kuroiwa, centre, prays as he visits the facility. Issei Kato / Reuters
Broadcast vehicles are seen parked near the Tsukui Yamayuri En care centre. Toshifumi Kitamura / AFP Photo
Japanese police officers check around the care home. Kimimasa Mayama / EPA
Crime scene investigators work at one of the crime scenes. Eugene Hoshiko / AP Photo
A police officer patrols the perimeter of the scene with an elderly resident looking on. Eugene Hoshiko / AP Photo
Satoshi Uematsu, 26, had left dead or injured nearly a third of the almost 150 patients at the facility in a matter of 40 minutes in the early Tuesday attack, the deadliest mass killing in Japan in decades. Twenty-five were wounded, 20 seriously. Mandatory credit Kyodo / via Reuters
Satoshi Uematsu broke into a facility for disabled people by shattering a window at 2.10am, according to a prefectural health official, and then set about slashing the patients’ throats. . Issei Kato / Reuters
Mass killings are rare in Japan. Because of the country’s extremely strict gun-control laws, any attacker usually resorts to stabbings. Yomiuri Shimbun / EPA