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Site of School Stabbing - Moscow

Site of School Stabbing - Moscow

This photo taken on Dec. 16, 2025 shows the site of a school stabbing in Moscow, Russia. A student was fatally stabbed by a minor, who also wounded a security guard, at an educational institution in the Moscow region early Tuesday, the Russian Investigative Committee said. The incident occurred at the Gorki-2 settlement in the western district of Odintsovsky, the committee said, adding that a criminal case has been initiated. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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Site of School Stabbing - Moscow

Site of School Stabbing - Moscow

This photo taken on Dec. 16, 2025 shows the site of a school stabbing in Moscow, Russia. A student was fatally stabbed by a minor, who also wounded a security guard, at an educational institution in the Moscow region early Tuesday, the Russian Investigative Committee said. The incident occurred at the Gorki-2 settlement in the western district of Odintsovsky, the committee said, adding that a criminal case has been initiated. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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Site of School Stabbing - Moscow

Site of School Stabbing - Moscow

This photo taken on Dec. 16, 2025 shows the site of a school stabbing in Moscow, Russia. A student was fatally stabbed by a minor, who also wounded a security guard, at an educational institution in the Moscow region early Tuesday, the Russian Investigative Committee said. The incident occurred at the Gorki-2 settlement in the western district of Odintsovsky, the committee said, adding that a criminal case has been initiated. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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Site of School Stabbing - Moscow

Site of School Stabbing - Moscow

This photo taken on Dec. 16, 2025 shows the site of a school stabbing in Moscow, Russia. A student was fatally stabbed by a minor, who also wounded a security guard, at an educational institution in the Moscow region early Tuesday, the Russian Investigative Committee said. The incident occurred at the Gorki-2 settlement in the western district of Odintsovsky, the committee said, adding that a criminal case has been initiated. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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Site of School Stabbing - Moscow

Site of School Stabbing - Moscow

This photo taken on Dec. 16, 2025 shows the site of a school stabbing in Moscow, Russia. A student was fatally stabbed by a minor, who also wounded a security guard, at an educational institution in the Moscow region early Tuesday, the Russian Investigative Committee said. The incident occurred at the Gorki-2 settlement in the western district of Odintsovsky, the committee said, adding that a criminal case has been initiated. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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Site of School Stabbing - Moscow

Site of School Stabbing - Moscow

This photo taken on Dec. 16, 2025 shows the site of a school stabbing in Moscow, Russia. A student was fatally stabbed by a minor, who also wounded a security guard, at an educational institution in the Moscow region early Tuesday, the Russian Investigative Committee said. The incident occurred at the Gorki-2 settlement in the western district of Odintsovsky, the committee said, adding that a criminal case has been initiated. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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Fatal stabbing in China

Fatal stabbing in China

Photo taken in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Sept. 20, 2024, shows flowers placed at the location where a 10-year-old boy was fatally stabbed by a man while on his way to a Japanese school on Sept. 18.

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Fatal stabbing in China

Fatal stabbing in China

Japanese Ambassador to China Kenji Kanasugi (R) speaks to reporters on Sept. 19, 2024, in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen after a 10-year-old boy was fatally stabbed by a man on his way to a Japanese school the previous day.

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Fatal stabbing in China

Fatal stabbing in China

Officials of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing observe a moment of silence on Sept. 19, 2024, after a 10-year-old boy was fatally stabbed by a man on his way to a Japanese school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen the previous day.

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Fatal stabbing in China

Fatal stabbing in China

Photo taken in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Sept. 19, 2024, shows flowers placed at the location where a 10-year-old boy was fatally stabbed by a man while on his way to a Japanese school the previous day.

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Six people, assailer killed in knife attack at Sydney shopping center: police

STORY: Six people, assailer killed in knife attack at Sydney shopping center: police SHOOTING TIME: April 13, 2024 DATELINE: April 13, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:31 LOCATION: SYDNEY, Australia CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. incident scene shot by witness STORYLINE: Six people were killed in a knife attack at a shopping center in Australia's Sydney on Saturday and the attacker was shot dead by police, police said. It has been confirmed the man fatally stabbed six people in the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping center before he was shot, New South Wales (NSW) Police said in a media advisory. The attacker had been in the shopping center, left, and returned with a knife for his stabbing spree, NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke told a press conference earlier. "As he moved to the center, he engaged with about nine people, and it's clear that during that engagement he caused harm to those people, we believe by stabbing them with a weapon he was carrying," he said. Cooke said the attacker wa

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Security Council Meeting At The Elysee Palace - Paris

Security Council Meeting At The Elysee Palace - Paris

French President Emmanuel Macron (C) holds security council at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, on October 16, 2023. President Macron raised national security alert system to a high level and mobilized 7,000 troops for increased security in response to a knife attack at a school in Arras, where a teacher was fatally stabbed to death and two others seriously injured on October 13, 2023. Photo by Yoan Valat/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Security Council Meeting At The Elysee Palace - Paris

Security Council Meeting At The Elysee Palace - Paris

French President Emmanuel Macron (C) holds security council at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, on October 16, 2023. President Macron raised national security alert system to a high level and mobilized 7,000 troops for increased security in response to a knife attack at a school in Arras, where a teacher was fatally stabbed to death and two others seriously injured on October 13, 2023. Photo by Yoan Valat/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Security Council Meeting At The Elysee Palace - Paris

Security Council Meeting At The Elysee Palace - Paris

French President Emmanuel Macron (C) holds security council at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, on October 16, 2023. President Macron raised national security alert system to a high level and mobilized 7,000 troops for increased security in response to a knife attack at a school in Arras, where a teacher was fatally stabbed to death and two others seriously injured on October 13, 2023. Photo by Yoan Valat/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fatal stabbing of woman in southwestern Japan

Fatal stabbing of woman in southwestern Japan

Photo taken on Jan. 17, 2023, shows the site where a woman was fatally stabbed the previous day near JR Hakata Station in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka. The male suspect, in his 30s to 50s, fled the scene armed with a knife after stabbing the businesswoman from a neighboring city.

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Fatal stabbing of woman in southwestern Japan

Fatal stabbing of woman in southwestern Japan

Photo taken on Jan. 17, 2023, shows the site where a woman was fatally stabbed the previous day near JR Hakata Station in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka. The male suspect, in his 30s to 50s, fled the scene armed with a knife after stabbing the businesswoman from a neighboring city.

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38-year-old woman killed on Osaka street

38-year-old woman killed on Osaka street

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the site in Osaka's Hirano Ward where Yumi Imura, a 38-year-old bar worker, was fatally stabbed on May 2, 2014. Police arrested Takashi Matsumoto, a 57-year-old male customer of the bar where Imura worked, on suspicion of killing her.

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Serial attacks

Serial attacks

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows police officers examining the blood-stained site where a man was fatally stabbed in one of several random street attacks and robberies in a residential area in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, on March 4, 2014.

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Serial attacks

Serial attacks

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows police officers examining the blood-stained site where a man was fatally stabbed in one of several random street attacks and robberies in a residential area in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, on March 4, 2014.

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Woman fatally stabbed in Chiba Pref.

Woman fatally stabbed in Chiba Pref.

ICHIKAWA, Japan - Police officers on Nov. 27, 2013, examine a street in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, where a woman was stabbed the same day. The woman was pronounced dead at a hospital.

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Man arrested after 2 fatally stabbed on Osaka street

Man arrested after 2 fatally stabbed on Osaka street

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on June 10, 2012, shows a street in the Higashishinsaibashi district in Chuo Ward in the city of Osaka, where a man and a woman were fatally stabbed in separate incidents earlier the same day. Police arrested a man for attempted murder after he admitted to stabbing the two.

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Man arrested after 2 fatally stabbed on Osaka street

Man arrested after 2 fatally stabbed on Osaka street

OSAKA, Japan - Police officers stand at the bloodstained scene of a stabbing in the Higashishinsaibashi district in Chuo Ward in the city of Osaka on June 10, 2012. A man and a woman were fatally stabbed earlier the same day in separate incidents on the street. Police arrested a man for attempted murder after he admitted to stabbing the two.

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S. Korean newspapers report killing of Coast Guard officer

S. Korean newspapers report killing of Coast Guard officer

SEOUL, South Korea - Photo shows South Korean newspapers dated Dec. 13, 2011, reporting on an incident the previous day in which a South Korean Coast Guard officer was fatally stabbed by a Chinese sailor caught fishing illegally in the Yellow Sea.

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Site around Akihabara stabbing rampage

Site around Akihabara stabbing rampage

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on June 8, 2008, shows an intersection in Tokyo's Akihabara shopping district around where Tomohiro Kato hit five pedestrians, of whom three were killed and two were injured, with a truck and fatally stabbed four people on the same day. The Tokyo District Court sentenced Kato to death on March 24, 2011, over the incident.

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Akihabara pedestrian zone reopened

Akihabara pedestrian zone reopened

TOKYO, Japan - People dressed as animation characters celebrate the reopening of a section of a vehicle-free pedestrian zone in Tokyo's Akihabara district, which is popular with shoppers and tourists for its cluster of shops selling electronics gadgets, on Jan. 23, 2011. The pedestrian zone was closed after a man drove a truck into shoppers, hitting and killing three men, and then fatally stabbed four people and left 10 others injured in June 2008.

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Akihabara pedestrian zone reopened

Akihabara pedestrian zone reopened

TOKYO, Japan - People including local officials cut the ribbon during a ceremony to mark the reopening of a section of a vehicle-free pedestrian zone in Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district on Jan. 23, 2011. The pedestrian zone was closed after a man drove a truck into shoppers in June 2008, hitting and killing three men, and then fatally stabbed four people and left 10 others injured.

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Killer may have escaped campus crime scene using stairs

Killer may have escaped campus crime scene using stairs

TOKYO, Japan - A security guard (L) asks a student to show his ID at the main gate of Chuo University's Korakuen Campus in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on the morning of Jan. 15. Security has been tightened following the murder of the university's professor Hajime Takakubo on the campus on Jan. 14. Takakubo was found fatally stabbed in a restroom and the suspect is still at large.

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Flowers offered for murdered 7-yr-old girl

Flowers offered for murdered 7-yr-old girl

KAKOGAWA, Japan - A message is seen attached on a flower bouquet Oct. 18 offered for Yuzuki Unose, a 7-year-old girl who was fatally stabbed Oct. 16 just outside her home in Kakogawa, Hyogo Prefecture.

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Osaka store worker stabbed to death after chasing shoplifters

Osaka store worker stabbed to death after chasing shoplifters

OSAKA, Japan - File photo of Kenji Kamiuchi, a 27-year-old part-time employee at a Seven-Eleven convenience store in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, who was fatally stabbed in the early hours of Oct. 6 by a shoplifter he chased. Two men fled after they were caught shoplifting inside the store and Kamiuchi caught up with one man, who attacked him with a knife.

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Osaka store worker stabbed to death after chasing shoplifters

Osaka store worker stabbed to death after chasing shoplifters

OSAKA, Japan - Police officers investigate a crime scene in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, where a 27-year-old part-time employee at a Seven-Eleven convenience store was fatally stabbed in the early hours of Oct. 6 by a shoplifter he chased. Two men believed to be around 18 to 20 years old fled after they were caught shoplifting and the Seven-Eleven employee, Kenji Kamiuchi, caught up with one man, who attacked him with a knife.

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People offer flowers for victimized kindergartners

People offer flowers for victimized kindergartners

NAGAHAMA, Japan - People offer flowers on Feb. 18 at the site where a 5-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy were fatally stabbed by a 34-year-old woman the previous day as she was taking them to kindergarten in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture.

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Woman arrested over murder of 5-yr-olds in Shiga Pref.

Woman arrested over murder of 5-yr-olds in Shiga Pref.

NAGAHAMA, Japan - Police officers check the scene in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, where two children were found stabbed on on Feb. 17. A 34-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing a 5-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy, both kindergarten classmates of her daughter.

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Woman arrested over murder of 5-yr-olds in Shiga Pref.

Woman arrested over murder of 5-yr-olds in Shiga Pref.

NAGAHAMA, Japan - Police officers check the scene in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, where two children were found stabbed on on Feb. 17. A 34-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing a 5-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy, both kindergarten classmates of her daughter.

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Taxi driver fatally stabbed, found in taxi in Nagoya

Taxi driver fatally stabbed, found in taxi in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Police investigate a taxi, in which driver Mikio Maeno was found fatally stabbed, in Nagoya's Meito Ward on Aug. 24. The police said they suspect Maeno might have been killed at another venue and moved to the scene.

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Takashi Hara

Takashi Hara

Born Feb. 9, 1856 in Iwate Prefecture, died Nov. 4, 1921. Hara, who served as Japan's 19th prime minister, from 1918 to 1921, is recognized as one of the main architects of party government in modern Japan. As leader of the political party Rikken Seiyukai, Hara formed Japan's first cabinet in which the head of the majority bloc in the lower house of the Diet became prime minister. He was fatally stabbed by a young ultrarightist in Tokyo Station on Nov. 4, 1921 while on his way to a regional party rally.

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Head of Ikeda elementary school's parent univ. voices anger

Head of Ikeda elementary school's parent univ. voices anger

TOKYO, Japan - Kaoru Nakatani, head of the parent university of Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture, speaks at the House of Representatives Committee on Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in the Diet in Tokyo on June 22. He voiced regret and anger at the June 8 killings in which eight pupils were fatally stabbed at the school.

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Assailant in fatal 2008 rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara executed

Assailant in fatal 2008 rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara executed

Photo taken on July 26, 2022, shows an area near the site of a 2008 rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara district in which a man ran down pedestrians on June 8 with a truck, killing three. He then exited the vehicle and fatally stabbed four others with a dagger. The assailant was executed earlier in the day.

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Assailant in fatal 2008 rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara executed

Assailant in fatal 2008 rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara executed

Photo taken on July 26, 2022, shows an area near the site of a 2008 rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara district in which a man ran down pedestrians on June 8 with a truck, killing three. He then exited the vehicle and fatally stabbed four others with a dagger. The assailant was executed earlier in the day.

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Assailant shot dead after killing 4 in southern Israel: police

STORY: Assailant shot dead after killing 4 in southern Israel: police DATELINE: March 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:46 LOCATION: Jerusalem CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of scenes of the attack STORYLINE: Four people were killed on Tuesday by an Arab assailant who was later shot dead by a passerby in Israel's southern city of Beersheba, Israeli police said. The assailant fatally stabbed a woman in a gas station after exiting his car near a shopping mall in Beersheba. He then went back to his car and ran over a bike rider before stepping out of the car again to fatally stab another man and woman, the police said in a statement. The state-owned Kan TV news reported that the attacker is an Israeli Arab citizen, a Bedouin resident of the village of Hura in the Negev Desert. He previously served prison terms for alleged ties to the terror group the Islamic State. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which is the deadliest in Israel in the past few years. Police spokesman Eli Levy told Channe

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Hansen's disease sanatorium staff in Kumamoto Pref.

Hansen's disease sanatorium staff in Kumamoto Pref.

Yasushi Shimura, leader of a group of Hansen's disease patients at a national sanatorium in Kikuchi, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, strolls on Jan. 27, 2015, along a street adjacent to the spot where the body of a fatally stabbed sanatorium staff member was found. The policy to quarantine Hansen's disease patients stayed valid till 1996. (Photo by Makoto Hori) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Britons vote in knife-edge EU referendum

Britons vote in knife-edge EU referendum

Flowers line the entrance of a polling station in Batley, northern England, on June 23, 2016, in memory of British Member of Parliament Jo Cox, who was fatally shot and stabbed in an attack in the town earlier in the month. Britons were voting in a referendum on whether to remain part of the European Union, with most experts saying the result was too close to call. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Osaka woman, father fatally stabbed, boyfriend suspected assailant

Osaka woman, father fatally stabbed, boyfriend suspected assailant

Police officers investigate near a house (R) where Miho Yamada, 42, and her 72-year-old father, Yoneichi Yamada, were fatally stabbed in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, in western Japan on June 13, 2016. The police said the woman's boyfriend, who later committed suicide, was likely responsible. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1 year on, Sagamihara massacre trial still unlikely to start soon

1 year on, Sagamihara massacre trial still unlikely to start soon

Photo taken on July 6, 2017, shows the Tsukui Yamayuri En, a facility to accommodate intellectually disabled people, in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan. It is where former worker Satoshi Uematsu fatally stabbed 19 intellectually disabled residents in July 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1 year on, Sagamihara massacre trial still unlikely to start soon

1 year on, Sagamihara massacre trial still unlikely to start soon

Mayumi Narazaki (C), a 39-year-old intellectually disabled woman, presides over a gathering in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, on July 8, 2017, to discuss an incident in which former care home worker Satoshi Uematsu fatally stabbed 19 intellectually disabled people in July 2016 in Sagamihara in the same eastern Japan prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People offer flowers for victimized kindergartners

People offer flowers for victimized kindergartners

NAGAHAMA, Japan - People offer flowers on Feb. 18 at the site where a 5-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy were fatally stabbed by a 34-year-old woman the previous day as she was taking them to kindergarten in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Woman arrested over murder of 5-yr-olds in Shiga Pref.

Woman arrested over murder of 5-yr-olds in Shiga Pref.

NAGAHAMA, Japan - Police officers check the scene in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, where two children were found stabbed on on Feb. 17. A 34-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing a 5-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy, both kindergarten classmates of her daughter. (Kyodo)

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Woman arrested over murder of 5-yr-olds in Shiga Pref.

Woman arrested over murder of 5-yr-olds in Shiga Pref.

NAGAHAMA, Japan - Police officers check the scene in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, where two children were found stabbed on on Feb. 17. A 34-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing a 5-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy, both kindergarten classmates of her daughter. (Kyodo)

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Killer may have escaped campus crime scene using stairs

Killer may have escaped campus crime scene using stairs

TOKYO, Japan - A security guard (L) asks a student to show his ID at the main gate of Chuo University's Korakuen Campus in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on the morning of Jan. 15. Security has been tightened following the murder of the university's professor Hajime Takakubo on the campus on Jan. 14. Takakubo was found fatally stabbed in a restroom and the suspect is still at large.(Kyodo)

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Osaka store worker stabbed to death after chasing shoplifters

Osaka store worker stabbed to death after chasing shoplifters

OSAKA, Japan - File photo of Kenji Kamiuchi, a 27-year-old part-time employee at a Seven-Eleven convenience store in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, who was fatally stabbed in the early hours of Oct. 6 by a shoplifter he chased. Two men fled after they were caught shoplifting inside the store and Kamiuchi caught up with one man, who attacked him with a knife. (Kyodo)

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Osaka store worker stabbed to death after chasing shoplifters

Osaka store worker stabbed to death after chasing shoplifters

OSAKA, Japan - Police officers investigate a crime scene in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, where a 27-year-old part-time employee at a Seven-Eleven convenience store was fatally stabbed in the early hours of Oct. 6 by a shoplifter he chased. Two men believed to be around 18 to 20 years old fled after they were caught shoplifting and the Seven-Eleven employee, Kenji Kamiuchi, caught up with one man, who attacked him with a knife. (Kyodo)

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