Mazda Speed

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Disgruntled ex-employee drives car into workers at Mazda plant killing 1, injuring 10
HIROSHIMA -- A disgruntled former employee deliberately drove his car into workers at a Mazda Motor Corp. plant here on June 22, killing one and hurting 10 others, police said.
Shortly after 7:30 a.m., a car driven by Toshiaki Hikiji, a former temporary worker with the automaker and resident of Hiroshima's Asa-Minami Ward, plowed into two workers in front of the east gate of Mazda head plant's Ujina-Higashi block in Minami Ward, and five other employees after he drove the vehicle into the site from another gate. The suspect then headed to the factory's Osu block, located about 800 meters away from the first target, and attacked four more people. He fled the scene in the car after the rampage.
All of the 11 victims were taken to hospital, but Hiroshi Hamada, a 39-year-old Mazda employee and resident of Higashi-Hiroshima, later died. The others sustained various injuries, some serious, investigators said.
Officials with the Hiroshima Prefectural Police's Hiroshima-Higashi Police Station detained the man in the Hiroshima Prefecture town of Fuchu, about five kilometers northeast of the attack scenes, before arresting him on suspicion of attempted murder and for hiding an 18-centimeter-long knife inside his car. After one of the victims died, police elevated the charges to murder.
"I was planning to attack employees at the Mazda factory with the knife. I hit the workers with intention to kill," police quoted the suspect as saying.
Hikiji reportedly also mentioned his motive, saying "Mazda fired me two months ago, and I had a grudge against the company. I was furious and desperate."
Following the incident, Mazda President Takashi Yamanouchi held a press conference in the afternoon of the same day and explained, "The suspect was a temporary worker at our company. There was no trouble while he was working with us."
The crime scenes are located in the middle of an industrial area along Hiroshima Bay.
(Mainichi Japan) June 22, 2010
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