OSAKA (TR) – Osaka Prefectural Police are looking for an assailant who stabbed a 20-year-old man making an attempt to interrupt up a road battle at a summer time pageant in Osaka City, reviews Kansai TV (July 13).
Shortly after midnight on Sunday, a passerby in Hirano Ward’s Kumata Park known as emergency companies to report {that a} younger man had been stabbed within the aspect. The caller famous that the sufferer was acutely aware, however the attacker had already fled the scene.
Emergency responders rushed the sufferer, a building employee from Nishiyodogawa Ward, to an area hospital. He sustained three puncture wounds from a bladed weapon, together with a deep gash to his left flank, however his accidents should not thought-about life-threatening.
According to police, the younger man was merely making an attempt to play peacemaker.
“Two groups of men around my age got into a dispute,” the sufferer instructed investigators. “When I tried to intervene and stop it, I ended up getting punched and kicked.”
In the chaos of the brawl, the sufferer didn’t even understand he had been knifed. It was solely when a bystander shouted, “Hey, you’ve been stabbed!” that he observed his accidents.
At the time of the stabbing, the park was bustling with crowds attending the Kumata Shrine Summer Festival. While the normal danjiri float parades had concluded earlier within the night, food and drinks stalls remained open late into the evening. Police famous that alcohol was flowing freely, and several other different fights had damaged out within the space previous to the stabbing.
Osaka Prefectural Police are at present investigating the case as tried homicide and are trying to find the suspect who fled the park.