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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