Abe voices ‘strong anger’ over ‘harrowing’ Japan stabbing

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers questions to reporters at the prime minister’s office in Tokyo on May 28, 2019. – A knife-wielding attacker killed a 12-year-old schoolgirl and a man before stabbing himself to death in a rampage outside Tokyo May 28 that also injured more than a dozen including several children. (Photo by JIJI PRESS / JIJI PRESS / AFP)

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe voiced “strong anger” over what he described as a “harrowing” attack, after a knifeman on Tuesday stabbed two people to death, including a 12-year-old.

“It is a very harrowing case. I feel strong anger. I offer my heartfelt condolences to the victims and hope the injured recover quickly,” Abe said in a televised reaction, his first since the attack.

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