Teachers and students at Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, continue work to?enhance school safety 25 years after a mass stabbing?at the school killed eight children.
While none of the teachers currently working at the school taught at the time of the incident, “the lessons of the incident are being handed down,” said Shinichi Arakawa, the school’s principal.?“We must not let the incident be forgotten and work to further raise safety awareness.”
The stabbing rampage occurred a little after 10 a.m.?on June 8, 2001, when a man armed with two knives broke into the school.
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