A Japanese man has hacked 19 disabled people to death and injured 26 at a disability center near Tokyo at which he used to work . Satoshi Uematsu , 26 , is reported to have said that he wanted " to get rid of the disabled from this world . " Reports suggest that he was hospitalised after writing a threatening letter to Tadamori Oshima , the speaker of the lower house of Japan 's parliament , in which he called for euthanasia of disabled people . He later turned himself into police at the scene of the crime .
A Japanese man has hacked 19 disabled people to death and injured 26 at a disability centre near Tokyo at which he used to work. Satoshi Uematsu, 26, is reported to have said that he wanted "to get rid of the disabled from this world." Reports suggest that he was hospitalised after writing a threatening letter to Tadamori Oshima, the speaker of the lower house of Japan's parliament, in which he called for euthanasia of disabled people. He later turned himself into police at the scene of the crime.