- Title: Four injured in knife attack on Tokyo train
- Date: 6th August 2021
- Summary: TOKYO, JAPAN (AUGUST 6, 2021) (REUTERS) POLICE OFFICERS WALKING THROUGH GATE RESCUE WORKERS HOLDING STRETCHERS PEOPLE PASSING POLICE LINE POLICE OFFICERS WALKING IN VARIOUS OF FIRST AID KITS AND STRETCHERS POLICE OFFICER WALKING PAST POLICE LINE RESCUE WORKERS WALKING OUT ENTRANCE OF SOSHIGAYA-OKURA STATION SIGN READING (Japanese and English): “SOSHIGAYA-OKURA STATION†POLICE OFFICERS IN CAR VARIOUS OF AMBULANCE AND RESCUE WORKERS
- Embargoed: 20th August 2021 16:40
- Keywords: Japan Tokyo injuries knife attack police stabbing train
- Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
- City: TOKYO, JAPAN
- Country: Japan
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Crime/Law/Justice,Crime
- Reuters ID: LVA001EP57YO7
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Four people were injured after a man with a knife ran amok on train in Tokyo, local media reported on Friday (August 6).
At about 8:40 p.m. local time (1140 GMT) several people told the police they had been stabbed while on a train on the Odakyu Odawara Line, in the western part of the city, the Mainichi daily newspaper said.
What appeared to be a kitchen knife was left on the train, the newspaper reported.
The four injured people were conscious and their lives were not in danger.
Tokyo police took a man believed to be the perpetrator into custody at around 10 p.m. local time, according to the newspaper.
Police were not immediately available for comment.
Violent crime is rare in Japan but there have been a spate of violent knife attacks by assailants unknown to the victims.
In June 2008, a man in a light truck drove into a crowd in the popular Akihabara district and then jumped out of the vehicle and started stabbing pedestrians, leaving seven dead.
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