Resentful Japan man admits driving SUV into schoolchildren in Osaka
The 28-year-old suspect, who recently quit his job, told police he had deliberately targeted the children as they walked home from school
A seven-year-old girl was seriously injured in the incident in Osaka, suffering a fractured jaw, while six others – all boys – escaped with minor bruises and scratches, local reports said.
Investigative sources told The Japan Times newspaper that he had admitted to disliking people “living without hardship”.
Yazawa told police he had deliberately targeted the seven children as they were walking home from school, according to the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.
“I was fed up with everything, so I crashed my car into a crowd of people, intending to kill them,” the newspaper quoted him as saying. “I tried to run over the schoolchildren.”