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OSAKA, June 8 Kyodo
(EDS: ADDING SUSPECT'S NAME, REASON TO PUBLICIZE IT, MORE INFO)
A 37-year-old man stabbed eight children to death with a 15-centimeter kitchen knife and injured 15 other people, including two teachers, in an indiscriminate attack Friday at an elementary school in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture.
The attack on the first- and second-grade pupils at Ikeda Elementary School, attached to state-run Osaka Kyoiku University, occurred around 10:20 a.m. during a recess.
Mamoru Takuma, who lives in the city of Ikeda, about 15 kilometers north of the city of Osaka, was arrested and told police,...
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