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To: TobagoJack who wrote (4513)	6/8/2001 12:42:16 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 74559

>>Eight Children Die As School Stabbing Stuns Japan By Keiko Kanai IKEDA, Japan (Reuters) - Eight children were killed and 15 people injured in Japan's worst school tragedy Friday when a middle-aged man with a history of mental illness went on a stabbing rampage at an elementary school in western Japan. The injured were mostly 7 and 8-year-old students at the school in Ikeda, a suburb of the western city of Osaka. Seven of those killed were girls and one was a 6-year-old boy, Japanese media said. . . . . . It was the worst mass-killing in Japan since the 1995 fatal sarin gas attack on crowded Tokyo subways by the Aum Shinrikyo (Aum Supreme Truth) cult which left 12 dead and thousands ill. The motive behind the incident was unclear, but NHK public broadcaster said that the suspect had told police he had taken 10 times the usual dosage of tranquilizers and was babbling. While school shootings, such the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, have become a grim part of life in the United States, random tragedy on such a scale is unheard of at Japanese schools. . . . . Japan's traditional sense of safety has been changing in recent years with the number of senseless crimes, often committed by teen-agers, rising rapidly. . . . . Voicing deep concern over rising crime rates, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi vowed to do whatever he could to restore Japan's reputation as one of the world's safest countries. ``The safe society is crumbling. We must think of ways to deal with this problem,'' Koizumi told reporters.<< dailynews.yahoo.com

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