List of mass stabbing incidents (2010–2019)
On 9 December 27-year-old mentally ill man committed stabbing spree at random people killing three and injured nine others On 14 March 2013, Chinese exchange student and intern Chen Shuangxi attacked his co-workers at the Kawaguchi Suisan fish-processing firm in Etajima, Hiroshima, Japan.
[citation needed] On 25 May 2013, Juan Rodríguez Llancapán murdered 5 people, among them his wife and three children, by stabbing three of them with a knife, strangling another, and beating one person to death.
[10][11] Shortly after, Prime Minister Netanyahu offered his condolences, adding "We will deal with the murderer to the fullest extent of the law.
"[10] On 19 November 2015, an assailant approached the entrance of a Tel Aviv synagogue at prayer time, and stabbed and killed two worshipers.
[13] Worshippers inside the synagogue became aware of the attack when a man covered in blood staggered into the room and someone shouted, "There's a terrorist."
Some worshipers assisted the wounded man while the other men who had been praying rushed to close the door, leaning against it to prevent the attacker from entering.
[15] According to the Jewish non-governmental organization ADL, it was "the bloodiest day in Israel since this latest round of Palestinian violence began back in September.
"[16] This was the first attack to be carried out by a Palestinian who had successfully passed through the security screening process and obtained a permit to work in Israel.
[15] The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories responded by suspending 1,200 entry permits to Israel, for Palestinians from the Hebron area.
[17][18][19] The attacker, Raid Halil bin Mahmoud (36), father of five, was arrested and identified as an Arab from the town of Dura.
[13][14][20] The attacker had been granted the work permit enabling him to enter Israel only 4 days before he stabbed two men to death at the synagogue.
[21] The Israeli government demolished Raid Halil bin Mahmoud's West Bank home in response to the attack.
the perpetrator was then killed by police [23] On 28 February 2016, Hasnain Warekar fatally stabbed 14 members of his family before taking his own life.
[27] According to the police, there were multiple motives including: substantial financial debt, sexual abuse of a sibling, and his own psychological distress.
[29] A 56-year-old knifeman stabbed four elementary aged children to death on their way to school in Lingshan County, China on 26 September 2016.
A fellow passenger managed to push him off the train, whereupon he attempted to get back on board by kicking and beating against the door.
[34][35] The suspect, a 36-year-old man identified by authorities as being an asylum seeker from Kosovo in the former Yugoslavia, who arrived in Germany in 2009,[34][36][37] resided in Wuppertal.
[citation needed] On June 10 2017, A rare stabbing spree occurred in the Inuit village of Akulivik leaving three people dead and two others injured.
[46] At 3 pm on 28 July 2017, Ahmad Alhaw, a 26-year-old Palestinian failed asylum seeker, went to an Edeka supermarket in Fuhlsbüttler Strasse in the Barmbek area of Hamburg.
[47][48][better source needed] He took a 20 cm-long kitchen knife from the supermarket shelf and used it to attack several people, killing a 50-year-old German man.
[53][54][55] Der Spiegel reported the suspect, who was arrested at the scene, as a refugee named Ahmad A., who allegedly had contacts with the Salafist sect, as well as having psychological and drug problems.
[59] Citing security sources, Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel reported that the perpetrator was a failed asylum seeker who was known to German police;[55] he had been added to the list of 800 suspected Islamists in Hamburg prior to the attack.
[61] While German prosecutors claim that the attacker had a "radical Islamist" motive, investigators have not found any links to jihadist groups.
[63] On the night of 9 June 2018, Ichiro Kojima (小島 一朗[64]), who was 22 years old at the time, attacked passengers with a billhook on the Tokaido Shinkansen train that was running in Kanagawa Prefecture.
All of the injured were in stable condition [75] On 31 December 2018 at 20:52 GMT, three people were stabbed in a knife attack at Manchester Victoria station.
[80] He is a 25-year-old man from Somalia who has lived in England for about 10 years and resides in Manchester's Cheetham neighbourhood with his parents and siblings.
38-year-old patient Nicolae Lungu killed seven people and injured six others using a metal stand for infusions, after which he was detained by police in the courtyard of the hospital.
Students in the classroom described how Marin arrived to class with a "long bag", took out a longsword and began stabbing people.
The police found several incendiary devices similar to a Molotov cocktail when they searched Marin's apartment after the attack.
Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne called the violence "shocking and completely unacceptable"[114] and visited Kuopio on 4 October.
