Bomb tossed at specific student:
Apparently school attacks aren’t exclusive to the United States. Last Friday an 18-year-old student at Hikari Senior High School in Hikari, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, threw a homemade bomb into a classroom. The bomb was made out of a glass bottle, which contained gunpowder, nails and various other metal objects. The bomb went off spraying the classroom with nails, glass, and shrapnel. Luckily no one was killed but several were injured.
As for the suspect…
The suspect, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, reportedly told police he had a grudge against a group of students who had teased him about his shyness.
The police suspect that a seething resentment led him to throw the explosive at the seat of one of those students, the sources said.
Officials of the school said Friday they do not think the boy had been a victim of bullying. However, some students said the boy kept to himself so much that he was often the target of teasing, although they said they did not believe it amounted to bullying.
Apparently he wasn’t so shy that he couldn’t throw a bomb in to his classroom. How selfish do you have to be to attempt to possibly take the lives of an entire classroom because one person teased you about being shy? I don’t know how Japanese law works but I hope he gets punished to the fullest extent of the law.
As always it was your pleasure.
Sphere: Related Content
Entries (RSS)
I’m actually surprised he didn’t commit suicide… Japan does have the highest suicide rate.