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Knife attacker kills 19 at disabled center in Japan

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A man wielding a knife kills 19 people at a disabled facility in a small town near Japan's capital, the country's worst mass killing in decades.

Added on the 26/07/2016 11:16:30 - Copyright : Reuters EN

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