Analysis of intelligence operations - 10:28 AM 5/28/2019
Kawasaki stabbing rampage leaves three dead, including schoolgirl and suspect; 17 injured Tuesday May 28 th , 2019 at 10:16 AM Japan Times Latest Articles 1 Share KAWASAKI - An 11-year-old girl and a 39-year-old man died in a mass stabbing in Kawasaki on Tuesday morning, a rampage that injured an additional 17 people — including 15 elementary school girls and a boy — and saw the attacker turn the knife on himself, police said. Investigative sources said they had detained a suspect after the rampage, a man in his 50s, who later died of a self-inflicted stab wound to the neck area, they said. The man was identified as Ryuichi Iwasaki, 51, of Kawasaki’s Aso Ward. Police identified the victims as Hanako Kuribayashi, 11, a sixth grader from Tama, Tokyo, and Satoshi Oyama, a 39-year-old Foreign Ministry official. They both suffered deep stab wounds to the neck. Oyama was the father of a child who was among the children at ...