Letter foretold rampage that killed 19 in Japan

A young Japanese man went on a slashing rampage on Tuesday, killing 19 people at a facility for the mentally disabled from which he had been fired, police said.

The attack came months after he gave a letter to a member of parliament outlining his plan and saying that all disabled people should be put to death.

When he was done, Satoshi Uematsu, 26, had killed or injured nearly a third of the almost 150 patients at the facility in a matter of 40 minutes, in the deadliest mass killing in Japan in decades, authorities said. Twenty-five were wounded, 20 of them seriously.