Nakano [Japan], May 26 (ANI): The suspect in a taking pictures and stabbing incident that left three individuals lifeless in central Japan is now in police custody, in line with Japanese public broadcaster NHK, CNN reported.
Police in Japan’s Nakano City on Thursday acquired a name {that a} “man stabbed a woman”, a metropolis police official instructed CNN.
When officers rushed to the scene, the suspect fired one thing resembling a searching rifle, placing 4 individuals, earlier than barricading himself inside a constructing, the official added, as per CNN,According to the police, among the many casualties is a lady in her 40s, who was taken to hospital the place she was subsequently pronounced lifeless. Two law enforcement officials additionally died from their accidents, NHK reported. The officers have been aged 46 and 61.
The suspect initially barricaded himself in a house belonging to Nakano City Council Chairman Masamichi Aoki, who was later revealed to be the suspect’s father, NHK reported citing Nakano City police.
He was later taken into custody, NHK mentioned.
As per NHK, a witness to the assault mentioned that he noticed a lady run towards him, pleading for assist, pursued by a masked man sporting camouflageThe man, who seemed to be in his 30s and wielded a knife a number of dozen centimeters lengthy, stabbed her within the again, NHK reported.
Nakano City urged residents to remain indoors in a press release posted onto social media, and town police spokesman instructed CNN that authorities had designated an “evacuation zone” with a radius of 300 meters across the scene of the incident. (ANI)