{"id":9650,"date":"2019-05-28T11:42:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T07:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=9650"},"modified":"2019-05-28T11:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T07:42:39","slug":"two-killed-including-girl-12-in-japan-stabbing-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/05\/28\/two-killed-including-girl-12-in-japan-stabbing-spree\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed including girl, 12, in Japan stabbing spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Two people, including a 12-year-old girl, were killed and 15 other children hurt in a stabbing spree in Japan on Tuesday &#8212; a rare act of public violence in a country considered one of the safest in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The attack took place near a park in the city of Kawasaki, about 13 miles (21 kilometers) from Tokyo, authorities said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Kawasaki Fire Department earlier reported that 16 elementary school students and three adults were injured.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Victims were taken to four different hospitals. A spokesperson at the Nippon Medical School Musashikosugi Hospital confirmed the young girl and a 39-year-old man died.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the attack was &#8220;heartbreaking.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__read-all\">\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;We must keep our children safe at all costs,&#8221; Abe told reporters. &#8220;I&#8217;ve instructed the related ministers to take immediate action to ensure the children&#8217;s safety in going to and leaving school.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">The suspected attacker also died from a &#8220;self-inflicted wound,&#8221; Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported. Police officers previously told NHK that the man, believed to be in his 40s or 50s, had stabbed himself in the neck.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>CNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people, including a 12-year-old girl, were killed and 15 other children hurt in a stabbing spree in Japan on Tuesday &#8212; a rare act of public violence in a country considered one of the safest in the world. The attack took place near a park in the city of Kawasaki, about 13 miles (21 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9652,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650\/revisions\/9652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}