Killer who targeted health bureaucrats turns self in to police

A man who claims to have carried out the stabbing attacks on former health bureaucrats has turned himself in to police:

The man reportedly had bloodstained knives in a bag, in addition to a pair of training shoes and his residence certificate, in a car he drove to the MPD headquarters.

The bag containing the knives and two cardboard boxes were on the backseat of the car.

He drove a dark red minicar bearing a Kawagoe number plate indicating the car is a rental vehicle, and there were bloodstains on the backseat, according to police sources.

When he turned himself in at MPD headquarters at about 9:35 p.m., he reportedly told the officer on duty that he had killed a former administrative vice minister.

Details about the man’s motives are still sketchy at this point, but Kyodo has reported that the killings may have had nothing to do with the pension scandal:

“I was hacked off because my pet was killed by a healthcare center in the past,” the man was quoted by the police as saying.

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