Man kills two in Japanese station

Tokyo - A knife-wielding man stabbed two people to death and injured 11 after smashing his car into a Japanese railway station…

Tokyo - A knife-wielding man stabbed two people to death and injured 11 after smashing his car into a Japanese railway station, police said. The man, identified as Mr Yasuaki Uwabe (35), hit several people as he drove his car into the central station in Shimonoseki, stopping near the ticket gate, said a police spokesman.

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