Ikeda school massacre takes place

When

8 Jun 2001

Kind

Event

Coordinates

34.82° N, 135.44° E

Description

Ikeda school massacre takes place.

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Ikeda school massacre.

2001 mass stabbing at an elementary school in Ikeda, Osaka, Japan

The Ikeda school massacre was a school stabbing and mass murder that occurred in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, on 8 June 2001. Mamoru Takuma, a 37-year-old ex-convict with a history of mentally disturbed and anti-social behavior, stabbed eight students to death and seriously wounded fifteen others in a knife attack that lasted several minutes.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “В начальной школе Икэда, элитном учебном заведении при Педагогическом университете Осаки, бывший школьный уборщик Мамору Такума совершил массовое убийство”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “大阪教育大学附属池田小学校に刃物を持った男が乱入して児童・教職員などを殺傷させ、児童8人が死亡し、児童および教職員を含む15人が負傷する惨事となった。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page