# "At Least 16 People, Including 13 Children, Are Stabbed at Bus Stop in Japan"

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**Created:** [May 28, 2019, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-least-16-people-including-13-children-are-stabbed-at-bus-stop-in-japan/834623 "2019-05-28T02:19:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-least-16-people-including-13-children-are-stabbed-at-bus-stop-in-japan/834623/1 "2019-05-28T02:19:33Z")

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“At Least 16 People, Including 13 Children, Are Stabbed at Bus Stop in Japan”

> **[18 Schoolchildren Stabbed, and Girl and Man Killed, in Attack in Japan...](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/world/asia/japan-stabbing-bus-stop.html)**
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> A man carried out the attack before fatally slashing himself in the neck. NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, said two adults were stabbed alongside the 18 girls.

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> KAWASAKI, Japan — At least 16 people, including 13 elementary school children, were stabbed on Tuesday morning while waiting at a bus stop in a suburb southwest of Tokyo, according to the police.
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> NHK, the public broadcaster, reported that all the children were girls between the ages of 6 and 7.
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> At least two of the victims, an adult and a child, had life-threatening injuries. The attack took place in Noborito-Shinmachi town in Kawasaki City.
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> The suspect, described as a man in his 40s or 50s by NHK, was in custody and unconscious after apparently stabbing himself in the neck.
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> …

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How many times a day can our hearts be broken?

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**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-least-16-people-including-13-children-are-stabbed-at-bus-stop-in-japan/834623/2 "2019-05-28T03:24:16Z")

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wow.even in Japan just another example no ones safe anywhere anymore …

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-least-16-people-including-13-children-are-stabbed-at-bus-stop-in-japan/834623/3 "2019-05-28T04:25:33Z")

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> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> How many times a day can our hearts be broken?

Oh, you don’t really want to know that.