SHIZUOKA (TR) – Shizuoka Prefectural Police arrested a 38-year-old man who’s suspected of happening stabbing rampage that injured 15 individuals at a manufacturing unit in Mishima City on Friday, studies the Asahi Shimbun (Dec. 26).
At round 4:30 p.m., a person related to the Yokohama Rubber Mishima Factory referred to as the hearth division. “Someone stabbed five or six people with a knife and sprayed a liquid on them.”
According to the Mount Fuji Southeast Fire Department, 15 individuals have been injured in a number of assaults with a knife at numerous areas on the manufacturing unit grounds. Triage to find out remedy priorities has decided that 5 of them are severely injured.
Police arriving on the scene arrested suspect Masaki Koyama, who claims to reside close to the manufacturing unit, on suspicion of tried homicide.
According to the Mishima Police Station, Koyama is suspected of stabbing a 28-year-old workplace employee from the town with what seemed to be a knife on the Mishima Factory grounds.
Investigators stated the suspect was carrying what seemed to be a survival knife and carrying a gasoline masks. There are additionally studies that one thing resembling chlorine bleach was sprayed.
Yokohama Rubber is headquartered in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, and its Mishima Plant in Mishima City manufactures passenger automotive tires. The plant’s website covers an space of 112,000 sq. meters. As of December 2024, it employs 987 individuals. It’s situated very near Mishima Futsukamachi Station on the Izu-Hakone Railway.