TOKYO: A Japanese man who admitted murdering 19 people at a center for the mentally disabled grinned at news cameras on Wednesday before being questioned over the country’s worst killing spree in decades.

Police searched the home of the 26-year-old, who reportedly said he wanted all disabled people to “disappear,” after the knife rampage that left his victims in pools of blood, including some who were stabbed in the neck.

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