Japanese police arrest man after three people stabbed at library

Japanese constabulary arrested a man successful his 60s aft 3 group were wounded successful a knife attack wrong a nationalist room successful Fukuoka connected Thursday evening.

According to nan Fukuoka Prefectural Police, an emergency telephone came successful astatine astir 7.50pm section clip reporting that aggregate group had been stabbed and that a information defender had managed to restrain a man equipped pinch a knife.

Officers rushed to nan segment and arrested Tatsuo Yoshii, 61, connected suspicion of attempted murder.

Investigators claimed that Mr Yoshii admitted to attacking nan victims and told authorities he didn’t cognize them. The stabbings occurred connected nan crushed level of nan Fukuoka City General Library successful nan city’s Sawara area.

Police said an aged man successful his 80s suffered a superior stab coiled to nan abdomen.

A information defender successful his 70s and a female successful her 50s were besides injured, pinch wounds to their necks and hands, nan constabulary said.

All 3 were taken to adjacent hospitals for treatment. Officials said they were conscious and their injuries were not believed to beryllium life-threatening.

A weapon was recovered astatine nan segment and seized arsenic evidence.

Police said that they were investigating nan information down nan attack, The Japan Times reported.

The onslaught came days aft a 21-year-old man was arrested aft a fatal stabbing successful Dotonbori area of Osaka.

Ryoga Iwasaki was accused of sidesplitting Ryunosuke Kamata, 17 and earnestly injuring 2 different boys of nan aforesaid property connected nan nighttime of 14 February.

The Asahi Shimbun reported, quoting unnamed sources, that Mr Iwasaki had been harassing a female astatine nan segment and nan teenagers stepped successful to situation him soon earlier nan stabbing.

In December, a 38-year-old man attacked workers astatine a tyre mill successful Mishima, stabbing 8 group and spraying 7 others pinch a bleach-like substance. The man was later arrested connected suspicion of attempted murder.

Violent crime is comparatively uncommon successful Japan. The state has a debased homicide complaint and its weapon power laws are among nan toughest successful nan world. However, isolated acts of unit do occur, including weapon attacks and uncommon shootings, astir notably nan 2022 assassination of erstwhile premier curate Shinzo Abe.

In June past year, Japan executed a man known arsenic nan “Twitter Killer”, who had been recovered blameworthy of murdering and dismembering 9 group aft contacting them connected societal media. It marked Japan’s first execution successful almost 3 years.

In July 2016, a 26-year-old man named Satoshi Uematsu carried retired a mass stabbing astatine a disablement attraction installation successful Sagamihara, adjacent Tokyo, sidesplitting 19 group and injuring 25 successful 1 of Japan’s deadliest attacks successful decades.