Deadly stabbing and capturing assaults in Japan

Police have described the camouflage-clad attacker as a person dressed in a hat, masks and sun shades.

Three other people were killed – together with two law enforcement officials – and one wounded in a capturing and stabbing assault in rural Japan with the camouflage-clad culprit barricading himself within a development, information reviews mentioned.

Officers rushed to the scene on Thursday after a pedestrian reported a commotion in Nakano town within the central Japanese prefecture of Nagano.

A witness instructed NHK public tv a lady fell whilst being chased through the suspect, who then stabbed her with a knife and shot at two law enforcement officials with a shotgun as they arrived on the scene.

“A woman came running from the road saying ‘help me’ and she fell down,” the person mentioned. “Behind her came a man wearing camouflage and carrying a large knife, who stabbed her in the back.”

A fourth one that used to be wounded may just now not be rescued as a result of he used to be close to the place the suspect used to be holed up.

Police described the attacker as a person dressed in a hat, masks and sun shades, Kyodo information company mentioned. City officers prompt the ones within the house to stick house. No different main points, together with in regards to the suspect and his motives, have been straight away recognized.

Crimes involving weapons are extraordinarily uncommon in Japan, the place gun possession is tightly regulated and any individual searching for to possess a gun should undergo a rigorous procedure prior to a license is granted.

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