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TIL that the Sagamihara stabbings occurred on 26 July 2016 in Sagamihara, Japan. Nineteen people were killed and twenty-six injured at a care home for disabled people. The attacker, former employee Satoshi Uematsu, surrendered and was sentenced to death. It is Japan’s deadliest mass stabbing.

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