Yokohama, Japan, Jul 29, 2016 / 04:01 am
Following Tuesday's mass killing at a care home in Japan for persons with mental disabilities, one of the country's bishops has said the incident demonstrates the need for such persons to be valued and protected by society.
"Disabled people have to be protected," Bishop Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi of Niigata told CNA.
He added: "A society which will not protect the weak has no respect for human dignity."
In the early hours of July 26 an attacker entered the Tsukui Yamayuri-en facility in Sagamihara, some 20 miles northwest of Yokohama, stabbing 19 people to death. The dead ranged in age from 19 to 70, and another 25 people were wounded.