The city of Sagamihara, near Tokyo, will scrap its plan to hold a Paralympic flame-lighting event at a care facility for people with mental disabilities where one of Japan's worst mass killings took place in July 2016, local government sources said Thursday.The decision comes after some relatives of the victims of the stabbings at Tsukui Yamayuri En, where 19 residents were killed and 26 injured by a former male employee of the facility, as well as support groups had voiced opposition to the planned lighting of the flame at the site of the incident.While the city informed the prefectural go…READ FULL ARTICLE
