A hammer attack left at least 8 injured Friday at a university in Tokyo, Japan. The attacker, a student in her twenties, was apprehended by the police.
A hammer attack left at least eight injured on Friday at a university campus in Tokyo, before the attacker 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 campus of Hosei University in the Tama district, in the western suburbs of the Japanese capital.
According to the Jiji Press agency and other media, a student in her twenties was arrested in connection with the attack. Asked by AFP, the police were not able to immediately confirm these details.
Live images broadcast by NHK showed a long line of emergency vehicles and ambulances, their lights flashing, heading towards the university site, located in the Machida district.
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.
A middle school student died after being stabbed in December, and another was injured last week at a McDonald’s restaurant in southwest Japan, an attack for which a man was later arrested.
In 2019, two people, including a schoolgirl, were stabbed and killed, and more than a dozen injured, in the city of Kawasaki in an attack by an attacker targeting children as they waited for a bus. The 51-year-old man then killed himself by hitting himself in the neck.
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