Shock as peaceful Japanese town wakes to ‘unthinkable’ disabled center horror

By Elaine Lies and Kwiyeon Ha SAGAMIHARA, Japan (Reuters) – Shock and bewilderment gripped neighbors of a disabled center in a town near Tokyo on Tuesday after a man stabbed and killed 19 residents in their sleep and wounded dozens more in Japan’s worst mass killing in decades. “This kind of thing doesn’t happen in Japan. It’s unthinkable it happened so close to me,” said Masae Mizoguchi, a 78-year-old retiree who lives up the hill from the Tsukui Yamayuri En (Tsukui Lily Garden) facility.

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Shock as peaceful Japanese town wakes to ‘unthinkable’ disabled center horror