Attacked with a knife on the institution for people with disabilities in the Japanese city of Sagamihara (Tokyo’s neighboring Kanagawa Prefecture) had been killed or wounded nearly a third of all its residents. As of the end of may, in the boarding house underwent long-term treatment or rehabilitation of 149 people aged 18 to 75 years, transfers TV channel NHK.
According to the latest data, the victims of the attack were 19 people. Officially confirmed the death of 15, four of those injured are in a state of “heart and lung” (in Japan called clinical death, which have the right to say only medical personnel, but not the rescuers. – approx. ed.). Another 20 victims doctors assessed as severe, the total number of injuries could be around 40 people.
The criminal surrendered
The perpetrator surrendered to the police.
As reported in police, the first call about the incident came from one of the employees social institutions in the morning. About an hour later to the station was the suspect who confessed to the crime. It was the 26-year-old Satoshi Uematsu, which, according to preliminary data, previously he worked in the boarding house. He is arrested under official suspicion in the assassination attempt, law enforcement agencies are trying to figure out the motives of his actions.
This Guesthouse occupies an area of about 31 thousand square meters, in this area, administrative building, diagnostic Department, two residential buildings, a sports court and an outdoor pool. Usually on night duty went eight employees. Two kilometres from the establishment of a railway station, and close to school and hospital. As the suspect could get to the boarding house in the middle of the night, is unknown.
