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Seven die in Tokyo knife attack

A man armed with a knife killed seven people and injured 11 others in a busy Tokyo shopping district.

Eyewitnesses described how the attacker drove a truck into a crowd in the early afternoon, and then began stabbing people at random.

Chris Hogg reports from Tokyo.

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