Uematsu, who formerly worked at the Tsukui Yamayuri-en care facility, reportedly used a hammer to… A man accused of cutting the throats of 19 mentally disabled people in a Japanese care home was temporarily committed for psychiatric care five months earlier, after talking openly about killing patients at the facility. Apart from the dead, who ranged in age from 19 to 72, 25 people were injured, several of them with severe knife injuries to the neck. Satoshi Uematsu handed himself into police in the early hours of this morning after the biggest act of mass killing in Japan’s post-war history.

Source: The Times July 26, 2016 07:52 UTC