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RECAP: Knife Attack With Smoke Grenades Leaves Three Dead in Central Taipei

Three people were killed after a man carried out a knife attack using smoke grenades in central Taipei on Friday, December 19. The suspect reportedly threw smoke grenades inside Taipei Main Station and stabbed passersby. He then fled the scene, traveled to nearby Zhongshan Station, and attacked pedestrians again before entering a department store. The 27-year-old suspect later died after jumping from the department store.

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Australian PM urges men, boys to prevent violence against women

STORY: Australian PM urges men, boys to prevent violence against women SHOOTING TIME: April 25, 2024 DATELINE: April 28, 2024 LENGTH: 0:00:19 LOCATION: Canberra CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Australia STORYLINE: Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has urged the nation's men and boys to take responsibility for ending a crisis of violence against women. Albanese on Tuesday said his government would do whatever it can to tackle violence against women but said men and boys must address the underlying causes of violence. He was speaking after a 29-year-old man who was on bail for another matter was on Monday charged with the murder of a 28-year-old woman in the state of New South Wales. According to activist group Counting Dead Women, 25 women have died violently in Australia so far in 2024, including five in the Sydney shopping center stabbing spree earlier in April. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Canberra. (XHTV)

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Flags across Australia at half-mast to mourn for victims over Sydney mall attack

STORY: Flags across Australia at half-mast to mourn for victims over Sydney mall attack SHOOTING TIME: April 15, 2024 DATELINE: April 15, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:59 LOCATION: SYDNEY, Australia CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of flags across Australia STORYLINE: Australia paid a national tribute to the six victims killed in a stabbing spree at Sydney's Bondi Junction Westfield by flying all flags across the country at half-mast on Monday. By order of the announcement, all Australian national flags hoisted outside government buildings were lowered as a symbol of respect for those killed. On Saturday afternoon, Sydney saw a violent stabbing spree unfold at one of its busiest shopping centers in Bondi Junction, which has so far left six innocent people dead. The knife-wielding attacker, who was believed to have acted alone, was fatally shot by an inspector, with police confirming that no continuing threat remained to the public. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Sydney, Australia. (XHTV)

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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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Stabbing spree in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows police officers (top) examining the site where a knife-wielding man stabbed several people near an entrance of subway's Toyocho Station in Koto Ward, Tokyo, on March 19, 2013. Four people were sent to hospitals.

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Stabbing spree in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows police officers (top) examining the site where a knife-wielding man stabbed several people near an entrance of subway's Toyocho Station in Koto Ward, Tokyo, on March 19, 2013. Four people were sent to hospitals.

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Security cameras set in Akihabara

TOKYO, Japan - People talk under a security camera in Tokyo's Akihabara district on April 1, 2010. A total of 34 surveillance cameras started operation the same day in a bid to make safer the area where a fatal driving-and-stabbing spree occurred in 2008.

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Man pleads guilty to carrying out Akihabara stabbing spree

TOKYO, Japan - People line up outside the Tokyo District Court on Jan. 28, 2010 to get gallery seat tickets for the first hearing of Tomohiro Kato, who is charged with a 2008 fatal stabbing spree in the capital's Akihabara district.

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Man pleads guilty to carrying out Akihabara stabbing spree

TOKYO, Japan - Vehicles are seen in the crossing in Tokyo's Akihabara district on Jan. 24, 2010, where a fatal stabbing spree by a knife-wielding man occurred in 2008. Defendant Tomohiro Kato pleaded guilty to killing seven people and wounding 10 others during his first hearing at the Tokyo District Court on Jan. 28.

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16 security cameras installed at Akihabara

TOKYO, Japan - A security camera is seen installed at a street light in Tokyo's Akihabara district on Jan. 26, 2010. A total of 16 security cameras were installed in part of the district, known as Akihabara Electric Town, where seven people were killed and 10 others injured in a stabbing spree on June 8, 2008.

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16 security cameras installed in Akihabara

TOKYO, Japan - People gather around a security camera installed on a streetlight in Tokyo's Akihabara district on Jan. 26, 2010. A total of 16 security cameras were installed in part of the district, known as Akihabara Electric Town, where seven people were killed and 10 others injured in a stabbing spree on June 8, 2008.

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Murder suspect held after mall attack leaves 1 dead, 7 injured

TSUCHIURA, Japan - Police officers examine the scene outside the Sanparu shopping mall in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, where eight people, including a police officer, were stabbed in the morning of March 23. A 24-year-old man, Masahiro Kanagawa, who had been wanted by police in connection with a murder case, was arrested later in the day for allegedly committing the stabbing spree. One of those injured in the attack, 27-year-old Takahiro Yamagami, died later in hospital.

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Murderer ordered to pay 160 mil. yen in compensation

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Akihisa Matsuo (L) and Noboru Nagafuji (C), two of nine plaintiffs, and their lawyer Shoji Tagawa (R) talk to reporters in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Nov. 1 after the Yamaguchi District Court's Shimonoseki branch ordered convicted murderer Yasuaki Uwabe to pay a total of around 160 million yen in compensation to the families of people he killed in a stabbing spree and others injured in the 1999 incident.

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1,400 attend memorial for victims of school stabbing spree

OSAKA, Japan - About 1,400 people attend a memorial service on Feb. 16 for eight children who were killed when a man went on a stabbing spree last June at Ikeda Elementary School attached to the state-Run Osaka Kyoiku University. Education minister Atsuko Toyama as well as local government officials and school alumni took part in the service held at a local hall in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture.

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Alleged school killer apologized: lawyer

OSAKA, Japan - Shigeki Todani, lawyer for Mamoru Takuma, 37, suspected of killing eight children in a June 8 stabbing spree at an Osaka school, speaks at a news conference Aug. 3, showing a letter Takuma addressed to him apologizing for his actions.

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Lawyers urge look into man's personality over school killings

OSAKA, Japan - Lawyers for Mamoru Takuma (file photo), accused of murdering eight children at the state-run Ikeda Elementary school in Osaka Prefecture last year, urged the Osaka District Court on Jan. 7 to look into how Takuma's personality was formed and led to the stabbing spree. Takuma, 38, pleaded guilty in the first hearing Dec. 27 to the stabbing at the school June 8.

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Relative nabbed over Kobe stabbing spree

KOBE, Japan - Police arrest Yasutaka Fujishiro,47, Aug. 31 on suspicion of killing three relatives and attempting to kill another in Kakogawa, Hyogo Prefecture, earlier this month. The stabbing spree left seven people dead. Fujishiro had reportedly admitted to killing the seven relatives with a knife ''due to long years of hatred.'' (Kyodo)

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Murderer ordered to pay 160 mil. yen in compensation

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Akihisa Matsuo (L) and Noboru Nagafuji (C), two of nine plaintiffs, and their lawyer Shoji Tagawa (R) talk to reporters in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Nov. 1 after the Yamaguchi District Court's Shimonoseki branch ordered convicted murderer Yasuaki Uwabe to pay a total of around 160 million yen in compensation to the families of people he killed in a stabbing spree and others injured in the 1999 incident. (Kyodo)

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People walk in Tokyo's Akihabara district, scene of stabbing spree

Shoppers and other people walk on vehicle-free streets on Feb. 1, 2015, in Tokyo's Akihabara district, the scene of the 2008 stabbing spree that killed seven passersby and injured 10 others. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the area in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, where a man in his 50s stabbed about 20 people, most of them elementary school students, with knives in Kawasaki near Tokyo, killing two on May 28, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Killer bared his soul on website prior to stabbings in Akihabara

TOKYO, Japan - Tomohiro Kato (R), the suspect in the June 8 stabbing spree in Akihabara, looks down as he leaves Manseibashi Police Station in Tokyo to be taken to prosecutors. Kato set up a cellphone website on which he posted threats prior to fatally stabbing seven people. (Kyodo)

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Masahiro Kanagawa, suspect in Ibaraki mall stabbing spree

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Masahiro Kanagawa, 24, who was arrested on March 23 after allegedly stabbing eight people with a knife near the Sanparu shopping mall in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture earlier in the day. Kanagawa was placed on the police wanted list on March 21 on suspicion of stabbing to death 72-year-old Tsuchiura resident Yoshikazu Miura on March 19. One of the eight people injured on March 23 died later in hospital. Kyodo)

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1,400 attend memorial for victims of school stabbing spree

OSAKA, Japan - About 1,400 people attend a memorial service on Feb. 16 for eight children who were killed when a man went on a stabbing spree last June at Ikeda Elementary School attached to the state-Run Osaka Kyoiku University. Education minister Atsuko Toyama as well as local government officials and school alumni took part in the service held at a local hall in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture.

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Security cameras set in Akihabara

TOKYO, Japan - People talk under a security camera in Tokyo's Akihabara district on April 1, 2010. A total of 34 surveillance cameras started operation the same day in a bid to make safer the area where a fatal driving-and-stabbing spree occurred in 2008. (Kyodo)

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Man sentenced to death for killing ex-vice minister, wife

TOKYO, Japan - The Saitama District Court on March 30, 2010, sentenced Takeshi Koizumi (file photo), 48, death for killing a former top health ministry bureaucrat and his wife and attempting to kill another in a 2008 stabbing spree. Koizumi was convicted of fatally stabbing former Vice Health and Welfare Minister Takehiko Yamaguchi, 66, and his wife Michiko, 61 at their home in the city of Saitama on Nov. 17, 2008. (Kyodo)

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Man pleads guilty to carrying out Akihabara stabbing spree

TOKYO, Japan - People line up outside the Tokyo District Court on Jan. 28, 2010 to get gallery seat tickets for the first hearing of Tomohiro Kato, who is charged with a 2008 fatal stabbing spree in the capital's Akihabara district. (Kyodo)

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Man pleads guilty to carrying out Akihabara stabbing spree

TOKYO, Japan - Vehicles are seen in the crossing in Tokyo's Akihabara district on Jan. 24, 2010, where a fatal stabbing spree by a knife-wielding man occurred in 2008. Defendant Tomohiro Kato pleaded guilty to killing seven people and wounding 10 others during his first hearing at the Tokyo District Court on Jan. 28. (Kyodo)

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16 security cameras installed in Akihabara

TOKYO, Japan - People gather around a security camera installed on a streetlight in Tokyo's Akihabara district on Jan. 26, 2010. A total of 16 security cameras were installed in part of the district, known as Akihabara Electric Town, where seven people were killed and 10 others injured in a stabbing spree on June 8, 2008. (Kyodo)

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16 security cameras installed at Akihabara

TOKYO, Japan - A security camera is seen installed at a street light in Tokyo's Akihabara district on Jan. 26, 2010. A total of 16 security cameras were installed in part of the district, known as Akihabara Electric Town, where seven people were killed and 10 others injured in a stabbing spree on June 8, 2008. (Kyodo)

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

Women pray on May 28, 2019, at the site in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, where a man in his 50s went on a stabbing spree. The man earlier in the day stabbed about 20 people with knives, most of them elementary school students, killing two. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

A woman places flowers on May 28, 2019, at the site in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, where a man in his 50s went on a stabbing spree. The man earlier in the day stabbed about 20 people with knives, most of them elementary school students, killing two. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe after stabbing spree near Tokyo

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo on May 28, 2019, after a man in his 50s stabbed about 20 people, most of them elementary school students, with knives in Kawasaki near Tokyo, killing two. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

A bouquet of flowers lays near the site in Kawasaki where a man in his 50s went on a stabbing spree on May 28, 2019. The man stabbed pupils from Caritas elementary school and adults before he died from self-inflicted wounds to his neck. At least one girl and a man died after being taken to hospital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

Photo taken May 28, 2019, shows a bus from Caritas elementary school near the site in Kawasaki where a man in his 50s went on a stabbing spree earlier in the day. The man stabbed 16 pupils from the elementary school and two adults before he died from self-inflicted wounds to his neck. At least one girl and a man died after being taken to hospital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

Photo taken May 28, 2019, shows a bus from Caritas elementary school near the site in Kawasaki where a man in his 50s went on a stabbing spree earlier in the day. The man stabbed 16 pupils from the elementary school and two adults before he died from self-inflicted wounds to his neck. One girl and a man died after being taken to hospital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

Photo taken May 28, 2019, shows a bus from Caritas elementary school near the site in Kawasaki where a man in his 50s went on a stabbing spree earlier in the day. The man stabbed 16 pupils from the elementary school and two adults before he died from self-inflicted wounds to his neck. One girl and a man died after being taken to hospital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

Police officers mill around a bus stop in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on May 28, 2019, after a man stabbed 16 pupils from the Caritas elementary school and two adults there. One elementary school girl and a man were killed in the incident while the suspect died after stabbing himself in the neck. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

A woman and a pupil of Caritas elementary school, a private Catholic school in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, head home on May 28, 2019, after a man in his 50s attacked 16 children from the school and two adults with knives near Noborito station in the city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

Pupils of Caritas elementary school, a private Catholic school in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, head home on May 28, 2019, after a man in his 50s attacked 16 children from the school and two adults with knives near Noborito station in the city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

Photo taken May 28, 2019, shows the scene near a stabbing spree by a man, thought to be in his 40s or 50s, in Kawasaki near Tokyo. The incident took place earlier in the day near Noborito Station in the eastern Japan city, with nearly 20 people, including elementary school students, victims of the attack. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

Photo taken May 28, 2019, shows the scene near a stabbing spree by a man, thought to be in his 40s or 50s, in Kawasaki near Tokyo. The incident took place earlier in the day near Noborito Station in the eastern Japan city, with nearly 20 people, including elementary school students, victims of the attack. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the scene of a stabbing spree by a man, thought to be in his 40s or 50s, in Kawasaki near Tokyo on May 28, 2019. The incident took place earlier in the day near Noborito Station in the eastern Japan city, with nearly 20 people, including elementary school students, victims of the attack. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the scene of a stabbing spree by a man, thought to be in his 40s or 50s, in Kawasaki near Tokyo on May 28, 2019. The incident took place earlier in the day near Noborito Station in the eastern Japan city, with nearly 20 people, including elementary school students, victims of the attack. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

Photo taken May 28, 2019, shows the scene of a stabbing spree by a man, thought to be in his 40s or 50s, in Kawasaki near Tokyo. The incident took place earlier in the day near Noborito Station in the eastern Japan city, with nearly 20 people, including elementary school students, victims of the attack. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

Photo taken May 28, 2019, shows the scene of a stabbing spree by a man, thought to be in his 40s or 50s, in Kawasaki near Tokyo. The incident took place earlier in the day near Noborito Station in the eastern Japan city, with nearly 20 people, including elementary school students, victims of the attack. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

Firefighters work to help victims at the scene of a stabbing spree by a man, thought to be in his 40s or 50s, in Kawasaki near Tokyo on May 28, 2019. The incident took place earlier in the day near Noborito Station in the eastern Japan city, with nearly 20 people, including elementary school students, victims of the attack. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

Firefighters work to help victims at the scene of a stabbing spree by a man, thought to be in his 40s or 50s, in Kawasaki near Tokyo on May 28, 2019. The incident took place earlier in the day near Noborito Station in the eastern Japan city, with nearly 20 people, including elementary school students, victims of the attack. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

Firefighters work to help victims at the scene of a stabbing spree by a man, thought to be in his 40s or 50s, in Kawasaki near Tokyo on May 28, 2019. The incident took place earlier in the day near Noborito Station in the eastern Japan city, with nearly 20 people, including elementary school students, victims of the attack. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an area near the scene of a stabbing spree by a man, thought to be in his 40s or 50s, in Kawasaki near Tokyo on May 28, 2019. The incident took place earlier in the day near Noborito Station in the eastern Japan city, with nearly 20 people, including elementary school students, victims of the attack. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree in Japan leaves at least 19 dead

Kanagawa Gov. Yuji Kuroiwa attends a press conference in Yokohama on July 26, 2016, following a stabbing rampage at a residential care facility for persons with mental disabilities in Sagamihara in the prefecture, west of Tokyo, in which at least 19 people were killed. Offering an apology and condolences to the victims, Kuroiwa vowed that the prefectural government would endeavor to see that such an incident never happens again. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo