Anonymous ID: 460ddb May 30, 2019, 3:49 p.m. No.6631104   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>1225 >>1478 >>1617

Footage of Kawasaki knife attack recorded by school bus dashcam

 

YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) โ€“ Footage of a recent mass stabbing attack in Kawasaki that left a schoolgirl and a man dead and more than a dozen others injured has been recovered from a school bus dashcam, police said Thursday.

The video shows the assailant, Ryuichi Iwasaki, 51, approaching a group of Caritas Elementary School students from behind as they waited for their school bus. It also captured the attack and its aftermath, the police said.

 

Iwasaki, who later died of self-inflicted wounds to his neck, wielded two 30-centimeter-long knives in the assault that occurred Tuesday in the city near Tokyo.

 

He wore gloves on his hands in an apparent attempt to prevent the knives from slipping.

 

Police found two smaller knives in a backpack left at the scene and four empty knife boxes at his home in Kawasaki on Wednesday, they said.

 

Hanako Kuribayashi, an 11-year-old student, and Foreign Ministry official Satoshi Oyama, the 39-year-old father of an unharmed Caritas Elementary School pupil, were killed in the knife attack around 7:40 a.m. Tuesday.

 

Seventeen others, mostly children but also a woman who is the mother of a Caritas Elementary School student, were also injured in the incident.

 

The police said Kuribayashi was stabbed in the neck and Oyama sustained a deep stab wound that pierced his heart. Other victims also sustained upper-body wounds.

 

Oyama was a Burmese expert who served as an interpreter for former Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko when they met with then Myanmar President Thein Sein in 2013 and 2015.

 

The imperial couple sent their condolences to Oyama's family through the Foreign Ministry, and the Imperial Household Agency said the two, who retired last month, are deeply saddened by the incident.

 

Caritas Elementary School remains closed in the wake of the attack, while a girls' junior and senior high school run by the same operator reopened Thursday after keeping its gates shut the day before.

 

Police officers and school officials stood watch as children arrived at the reopened school, many escorted by their parents.

 

National Police Agency Commissioner General Shunichi Kuryu called the incident "extremely malicious" in a press conference Thursday and said the police as well as government ministries and agencies concerned aim to beef up safety measures for children.

 

"We will work with municipalities, schools and parents to reinspect the places in which children gather on their way to and from schools," he said, adding police will increase patrols.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190530/p2g/00m/0dm/064000c

Anonymous ID: 460ddb May 30, 2019, 4:33 p.m. No.6631456   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

Amazon is interested in buying Boost from T-Mobile, Sprint

Amazon is interested in buying prepaid cellphone wireless service Boost Mobile from U.S. carriers T-Mobile and Sprint, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

 

Amazon is considering buying Boost mainly for an attached wholesale deal that would allow the buyer to use T-Mobileโ€™s wireless network for at least six years, one of the sources said. Amazon would also be interested in any wireless spectrum that could be divested, the source said.

 

Amazon declined to comment. T-Mobile and Sprint did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

 

It was not immediately clear why the U.S. online retail giant and cloud services provider would want the wireless network and spectrum.

 

T-Mobile and Sprint have offered concessions, including selling Boost, to reduce their market share in the prepaid wireless business and gain regulatory approval for their planned $26 billion merger.

 

The U.S. Justice Department would need to scrutinize the buyer of a divested asset to ensure it will stay viable and preserve competition.

 

The carriers are also considering divesting wireless spectrum, or airwaves that carry data, in order to push the merger through.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/30/amazon-is-interested-in-buying-boost-from-t-mobile-sprint-reuters.html