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This is a list of mass stabbings that took place in the 2010s. It includes incidents in which there were at least three casualties (killed or injured).
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This is a list of mass stabbings that took place in the 2010s. It includes incidents in which there were at least three casualties (killed or injured).
On 9 December, a 27-year-old mentally ill man killed three people and injured nine in a street after being refused prescription drugs at a nearby pharmacy.
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. Two people were killed and seven others were injured. Chen attacked his co-workers with a shovel and a knife. Nobuyuki Kawaguchi, 55, the president of the Kawaguchi Suisan oyster farm, and co-worker Masako Hashishita, 68, were killed in the attack. One man and five women were injured. According to Chen, he had felt mistreated at his workplace, believing his co-workers were talking badly of him, saying that Kawaguchi frequently "belittled" him. He had called in sick the day of the attack and attacked others when Kawaguchi reprimanded him outside his room. As a result, the act was deemed not premeditated and the result of "loneliness and miscommunication due to a language barried". In 2015, Chen was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The stabbings caused controversy over the foreign trainee program in Japan, after it was revealed that Chen had a farming background rather than previous experience in fishing. Additionally, other scandals regarding mistreatment of foreign workers by Japanese businesses were revealed, including two deaths.
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.
On 28 February 2014, 2 people were killed and 4 others were injured in a stabbing spree in a distribution centre. The perpetrator was arrested.
On 14 March 2014, during an argument between two groups of Uyghur street merchants, one vendor fatally stabbed another man. The attacker fled the scene and killed four uninvolved passersby before being shot dead by police.
On 27 March 2014, 6 people were stabbed to death in a family property row.
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014, at least six people were injured in a knife attack in Guangzhou. At least one suspect was shot and detained by authorities. It was believed by some witnesses that about four suspects were involved, they were clad in white clothes, wearing white caps and were carrying large knives.
On 7 July 2014, a stabbing occurred in the Plaza de la Democracia injuring 3 people after the country lost to the Netherlands in the 2014 FIFA World Cup
On 14 October 2014, a woman with schizophrenia killed one student and injured 2 others and a police negotiator at a secondary school.
On 9 March 2015, a man killed 5 people in a prolonged stabbing attack.
Yishai Shlisel, who was previously arrested for stabbing 3 people in 2005 at the Jerusalem gay pride parade, stabbed and injured six marchers at the Jerusalem gay pride parade on 30 July 2015. It was three weeks after he was released from jail for the 2005 incident. One of the victims, 16-year-old Shira Banki, died of her wounds at the Hadassah Medical Center three days later, on 2 August 2015. Shortly after, Prime Minister Netanyahu offered his condolences, adding "We will deal with the murderer to the fullest extent of the law."
On Halloween 2015, 32-year-old Amy Vilardi, cut the throats of her mother, stepfather, grandmother, and stepgrandmother before shooting them post-mortem. She was convincted of the massacre almost a decade later and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. The motive behind the massacre was financial. It is considered one of the worst mass murders in Anderson County.
On 6 November 2015, a 28-year-old man stabbed three people with a butterfly knife on the steps of a secondary school in Sliven. One of them, a 15-year-old girl, died while the other two, a 40-year-old teacher and another 28-year-old man were injured. The perpetrator had been a friend and neighbour to the killed student and in 2014, he had asked to enter a relationship with the then-14-year-old girl. She refused and told her mother about his advances, also informing the attacked teacher when the perpetrator began writing her threatening messages. Following a suicide attempt, the perpetrator convinced the girl to a meeting at the school, with the teacher and a friend of the perpetrator watching the scene from a distance out of suspicion. The perpetrator had caught both of the female victims off-guard by firing a gas pistol at them, stabbing the girl twenty times and the teacher three times; the friend was scared off by the gunfire. The perpetrator fled the scene for the back of the school, where he shot and injured himself using the pistol. In 2016, the perpetrator was given a maximum prison sentence of 30 years.
On 19 November 2015, an assailant approached the entrance of a Tel Aviv synagogue at prayer time, and stabbed and killed two worshipers. The attacker was arrested. At approximately 14:00 pm, the assailant approached the entrance to the informal prayer room located in a South Tel Aviv building during afternoon prayers. 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. When the terrorist ceased attempting to shove the door open, they rushed out with makeshift weapons to try to subdue him.
This attack shocked the nation coming, as it did, after a period of calm, free of terror attacks. 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."
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. The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories responded by suspending 1,200 entry permits to Israel, for Palestinians from the Hebron area.
The attacker, Raid Halil bin Mahmoud (36), father of five, was arrested and identified as an Arab from the town of Dura. He had recently been granted a permit to work in a Tel Aviv restaurant, but told authorities that his purpose in getting the permit had been to kill Jews. 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. The assailant was indicted for murder on 13 December 2015. The Israeli government demolished Raid Halil bin Mahmoud's West Bank home in response to the attack.
On 23 November 2015, a Palestinian killed an Israeli soldier and injured two other people at a gas station. the perpetrator was then killed by police.
On 28 February 2016, Hasnain Warekar fatally stabbed 14 members of his family before taking his own life. The murders took place in Thane. The victims were his parents, wife, two daughters, three of his four sisters, four nephews and two nieces. According to the police, there were multiple motives including: substantial financial debt, sexual abuse of a sibling, and his own psychological distress. At the time (2016), the killings were classified as the "worst-ever family homicide" in the country's history.
The incident took place at 1:00 am in Thane district of Maharashtra. The murderer's name was given in different sources as Hasnel Anwar Warekar, Husnail Varekar and Asnain Anwar Warekar, aged 35. Warekar sedated his victims by spiking a soft-drink he gave them, before slitting their throats with a large knife. The victims were his parents, wife, two daughters, three of his four sisters, four nephews and two nieces. After killing them, he hanged himself. Warekar's motives were; financial debt, he had borrowed 6,700,000 Rs ($US693,675 dollars) from family members, and lost it in the stock market; he had overheard a sibling he was sexually abusing telling his surviving sister of the abuse, and he was being treated for a psychological issue. A 21-year-old sister of his survived and was taken to a hospital.
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.
On 15 November 2016, a student stabbed and injured five students at random before getting arrested.
On 13 December 2017, a thirty-two-year-old man committed a knife attack in a school injuring seven people.
The 2017 Düsseldorf axe attack occurred when a 36-year-old asylum seeker from Kosovo attacked fellow passengers with an axe aboard a train on 9 March 2017. He injured nine persons on a train and continued in the main train station in Düsseldorf, Germany. He fled jumping from a bridge and injured himself severely. He was considered to be mentally ill without a connection to terrorism.
The assailant was aboard a train when he suddenly began attacking fellow passengers with an axe. 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. When he was unable to force the door open, he began attacking people in the central train station.
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, resided in Wuppertal. Sources describe the attacker as being from Kosovo, a disputed territory formerly part of Yugoslavia. Investigators see no indication that the suspect had a terrorist background.
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