Ikeda Elementary School reopens 80 days after attack

Ikeda Elementary School reopens 80 days after attack

OSAKA, Japan - Pupils of Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture gather in the schoolyard in front of a temporary schoolhouse on Aug. 27 for a ceremony to start the second term of the year. The school reopened 80 days after a knife-wielding man slaughtered eight children there on June 8.

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