TOKYO: One particular person has died and two extra had been injured on Sunday (Feb 25) morning in a stabbing incident in a comfort retailer in Sapporo on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, NHK broadcaster reported.
A Seicomart comfort retailer worker within the regional capital Sapporo instructed native police a person was behaving aggressively with one thing trying like a kitchen knife earlier than 7am native time, in response to NHK.
Three staff of their 40s to 60s had been stabbed and injured, with a person in his 40s taken to the hospital the place he later died. Two others, a person and a girl, remained aware, NHK stated, citing police.
An unemployed 43-year-old native was arrested on the spot on suspicion of tried homicide, NHK added.
In January, three males had been injured in a stabbing incident in Akihabara tourism hotspot in Tokyo however public violence stays low in Japan.
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