A Stabbing Spree

A disturbed young Japanese auto worker who killed seven people on a stabbing spree in downtown Tokyo had posted dozens of warnings of what he was going to do on internet bulletin boards.

The assailant, 25-year-old Tomohiro Kato, is a graduate of a prestigious high school who went on to do manual work at an auto components factory. On Sunday he drove a rented two-tonne truck some 100 kilometers to Tokyo, swerving the vehicle into pedestrians before bursting out and stabbing at random with a survival knife. He wounded 17 people, seven of whom died before police overpowered him.