The mass murder in Tokyo’s Akihabara Electric Town has left the nation in shock… a 25-year-old man turned rampage on Sunday noon, killed seven and injured 10 before he was arrested by the cops.
The violence began when the murderer crashed a rented truck into pedestrians, and then jumped out of the vehicle and started stabbing the people he had knocked down before turning on horrified onlookers until he was apprehended.
Three people were killed by the impact of the truck and four from stab wounds.
The murderer had been posting his attack plan on a mobile phone bulletin board since Sunday early morning… obviously nobody was taking him seriously until the attack.
Japanese media is pulling together the postings and police statements, and drew a picture of an angry, lonely young man who meticulously planned the deadly attack.
It’s a sad thing to read, reminds me of the Columbine and Virginia Tech massacre… the saddest thing is that we might be seeing similar random-mass-attack in near future around the world.
My condolences to the victims’ family and friends.
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Sad thing to hear about. Japanese are beginning to feel the stresses and problems of their modern culture just like the west is. Unfortunately there are always going to be those individuals who crack under the pressure. Loneliness is is one of the symptoms for some of these people. And the feeling of being betrayed by society is also a common factor among those that do these kinds of things. Suicide rates in Japan have risen also in recent years.
very sad news. i feel sorry for the victims family. am i the only one that think people are getting crazier nowadays? is the people getting less adaptable to stress or life is getting tougher? i hope this violence will not happen in my place…. i hope it won’t happen in any place again.
these occurrences make me wonder…
the world, in general, is getting worse and worse.
natural disasters are hard to prevent and predict.
but such cases are controlled by human beings.
how can we change this…?
I guess it’s a bit of both… life is getting tougher, and people is getting weaker.
We can only hope that these incidents won’t be happening that often… with the current global trends, I doubt we can prevent these stuff from happening again.