The suspect reportedly said she felt pent-up frustrations after being ignored, according to some media reports. A hammer attack left eight people injured on Friday at a university in Tokyo, before the attacker, a 22-year-old student, was apprehended by the police, Japanese media announced.
None of the injured people lost consciousness, said public television NHK, according to which the attack took place on the Tama campus of Hosei University, in the western suburbs of the capital. According to NHK and other Japanese media, the attacker was a sociology student who brandished a hammer in the middle of class.
Ambulances on site
The Japanese press indicated that several people had been seen on site with bloody heads. Police were not immediately able to confirm these details. Images broadcast live by NHK showed a long line of emergency vehicles and ambulances, their lights flashing, heading towards the university site in the Machida district.
Hosei University was founded in 1880 as a law institute, and today has 15 departments, according to its website.
Violent crime is rare in Japan, as the archipelago has strict gun control regulations. However, stabbing attacks, even shootings like the attack which cost the life of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022, sometimes occur in the country.
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In December, a middle school student died after being stabbed and another was injured in an attack at a McDonald’s in Kitakyushu in southwest Japan, following which a man was later arrested.
