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Japan knife rampage on buses leaves 13 wounded

Baku, December 17 (AZERTAC). A Japanese man with a knife went on a rampage on two packed buses Friday and wounded 13 people, mostly teenage school children, by slashing and beating them and sparking a panicked stampede.

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