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At around 8 p.m. JST on 31 October 2021, 24-year-old Kyota Hattori carried out a knife and arson attack on a Keiō Railway train as it was travelling to Kokuryō Station on the Keiō Line in Chōfu, a city in the western suburbs of Tokyo, Japan. [2] [3] He injured 17 people, one critically.
Yoshihide Suga, the Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary at the time, acknowledged that the attack was "a very heart-wrenching and shocking incident in which many innocent people became victims". [3] [7] He also said that the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare would investigate ways to prevent a similar incident from occurring again. [1]
The attack is currently the sixth deadliest mass murder, along with the Matsumoto incident, in recent Japanese history, surpassed in fatalities only by the Tokyo subway sarin attack, the Osaka movie theater fire, [11] the Sagamihara stabbings, the Kyoto Animation arson attack, and the Myojo 56 building fire. At the time, it was tied with the ...
Japanese police said Monday that they have arrested a man on suspicion of slashing three people on a train in western Japan. The 37-year-old suspect was carrying three knives, including two in ...
A woman in her 40s and two police officers, aged 46 and 61, were killed in the attack. The officers were identified as Inspector Yoshiki Tamai and Sergeant Takuo Ikeuchi, who were not equipped with bulletproof vests while responding to an emergency call. [5] They were killed at close range with shotgun slugs. [6]
A man swinging a knife attacked commuters waiting at a crowded bus stop just outside Tokyo during Tuesday morning's rush hour, wounding at least 19 people, including 13 children, Japanese ...
A schoolgirl and an man were killed and 16 other young girls injured in a stabbing at a bus stop just outside Tokyo.
A mass stabbing incident occurred 6 August 2021, on a commuter train in the Odakyu Electric Railway in Tokyo, Japan.Ten people were injured in the incident. The attacker, a 36-year-old man named Yusuke Tsushima, was arrested hours later at a convenience store. Po