Shimonoseki Station massacre

Name: Shimonoseki Station massacre
Start: 1999

1999 CE.

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The Shimonoseki Station massacre (Japanese: 下関通り魔殺人事件, romanized: Shimonoseki tōrima satsujin jiken) was a mass murder that occurred in Shimonoseki, Japan on 29 September 1999. Yasuaki Uwabe, a 35-year-old former architect, drove a car into Shimonoseki Station and then stabbed passers-by at random, killing five people and injuring 10 others, before being arrested at the scene. Uwabe was sentenced to death in 2002 and executed in 2012.

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