8 Jun
2001
8 Jun
'01
10:19 a.m.
Man Kills Eight Students in Japan OSAKA, Japan (AP) - A man brandishing a knife burst into an elementary school on Friday and slashed nearly two dozen people, killing at least eight children, in Japan's worst mass-killing since a deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subways six years ago. Police said the attacker, identified as Mamoru Takuma, carried a 6-inch kitchen knife. .... Well we certainly hope Sec'ty Annan starts proposing internation bans on the manufacture of kitchen knives and their precursor materials. "It can't happen here" ---Suzy Creamcheese