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The 'High Score' still belongs to Mutsuo Toi however:
On the evening of 20 May 1938 21-year-old Toi cut the main electricity line to his village of Kaio, close to Tsuyama city in Okayama prefecture, leaving the community in darkness and without telephones. Before embarking on his rampage, at around 1:30am on 21 May, he first killed his 76-year-old grandmother by decapitating her with an axe. He then strapped two electric torches to his head and prowled through the village, entering the homes of his neighbours and proceeding to kill 29 of them over the course of an hour and a half, using a shotgun, a sword and an axe, finally shooting himself at dawn. This was almost half of the residents of the small community, and the incident became known as The Tsuyama massacre. Until the 1982 killing by Korean policeman Woo 'Power' Bum-kon (58 dead, 35 wounded) it was regarded as the world’s worst spree killing by an individual.