Students place flowers on an altar at Ikeda Elementary School in the Osaka Prefecture city of Ikeda on Thursday, to remember the eight children killed in a knife attack on June 8, 2001. A memorial service was held Thursday to mark the 22nd anniversary of a stabbing rampage at an elementary school in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, that left eight children dead. Relatives, teachers and students attended the ceremony at Ikeda Elementary School to remember the tragedy and pledge to keep the school safe. At his trial, he said that he committed the crime because he wanted to be executed. The rampage led many schools in Japan to step up security such as locking gates and installing surveillance cameras.

Source: The Guardian June 08, 2023 19:35 UTC