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Saitama City police officers gather Tuesday morning at the area where a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death on Monday night in Sakura Ward. Image: KYODO
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Teenage girl fatally stabbed near entrance to apartment building; suspect arrested

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Police in Saitama City have arrested a 24-year-old man on suspicion of killing a 15-year-old girl at the entrance to her apartment building on Monday night.

According to police, the incident occurred just before 8 p.m. at the building in Sakura Ward, about 2 km west of JR Minamiyono Station, NHK reported.

Police received a call from someone at the apartment building saying that a young girl had been beaten and stabbed near the first-floor entrance. The victim was identified as Reina Tegara, who was a high school student. She was taken to hospital, but confirmed dead about an hour later.

The suspect, Hiroyuki Taniguchi, turned himself in at a koban (police box) one kilometer away at 8:30 p.m. Police said there was blood on his clothes and that both his hands were bleeding. Police said they don't yet know whether he and the victim knew each other.

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At this rate the crime rate will turn into one of those European stabbing capitals.

-11 ( +8 / -19 )

Another sad youth death.

11 ( +12 / -1 )

crazy people in every culture...the thing the freaks me out living here in JP is the crims seem so normal...like librarian normal..uni student normal...slim polite kombini checkout person normal. Not a druggie looking scruffy haired tattooed freak you might see in Sydney or NY.....a NORMAL looking guy, with a sick twisted angry mind. Can't spot them at all. This is even more dangerous to me...they just hide all the anger and bitterness inside and then slash and stab, like that nutjob in Nagano eki a few weeks back.

-8 ( +6 / -14 )

"Police said they don't yet know whether he and the victim knew each other."

I'm curious as to whether this is another random "I just wanted to kill someone" stabbing, or another jilted-rejected-bruised-male-ego stabbing.

Either way, it's a tragedy, of course.

7 ( +8 / -1 )

What is going on these days!?

At this rate things are NOT to be as safe as they use to be.

-7 ( +2 / -9 )

They almost certainly knew each other, really sad for the girl and her friends and family.

But let's not overplay the levels of violence here.

2 ( +6 / -4 )

The suspect is Japanese, but he identifies as a disgruntled Syrian refugee, mad that all the free stuff he gets isn't enough free stuff.

-6 ( +3 / -9 )

Oh no, not again! Another senseless murder on a child.

What kind of demonic forces drove this man to commit this sick crime.

This creature of darkness needs a life sentence without parole.

-3 ( +2 / -5 )

I think you can assume the freak knew her.

2 ( +2 / -0 )

Another chika idol situation maybe?

-3 ( +0 / -3 )

This is so sad. Why? At least the monster had enough common sense or remorse to turn himself in, But, again, meaningless and violent loss of life is so sad.

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@gsa

Japan is letting in a lot of immigrants and it is valid to point out the pitfalls that Europe is making.

Furthermore the rate of stabbings in Japan recently does resemble the way European cities with large Middle Eastern populations get so many stabbings.

-2 ( +2 / -4 )

A different J-news source reported the suspect told police "I just wanted to kill somebody, it didn't matter who".

3 ( +3 / -0 )

Rest in Peace to the poor, innocent girl. At just 15, with her entire life ahead of her. Beyond tragic.

I really hope the perpetrator is hung for this.

They almost certainly knew each other, really sad for the girl and her friends and family.

Complete, baseless speculation.

2 ( +3 / -1 )

Gallows for that scumbag..

1 ( +2 / -1 )

Murder is always senseless. Poor girl. Whatever the reason is pretty irrelevant to the victim and their family. Just goes to show though, you can ban every stabby shooty thing you want, if someone wants to do it they will.

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Japan is letting in a lot of immigrants and it is valid to point out the pitfalls that Europe is making.

Furthermore the rate of stabbings in Japan recently does resemble the way European cities with large Middle Eastern populations get so many stabbings.

The suspect, Hiroyuki Taniguchi, turned himself in at a **koban (police box) one kilometer away at 8:30 p.m.** 

Pretty sure Hiroyuki Taniguchi is not an immigrant from the Middle East.

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