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Attack On A Train In Japan Injures Three

On Sunday, three people were injured in a knife assault on a train in western Japan, and police said they had apprehended a man in connection with the stabbings.

The casualties, a train conductor in his twenties and two male passengers in their thirties and seventies were carried to hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to Tetsuya Sakagami of a neighboring fire station.

Local police said the 37-year-old male suspect was armed with three knives when he was apprehended at Rinku Town station in the Osaka region.

He was detained for attempted murder and has already admitted to carrying out the attack on Sunday morning, police stated, who added that the motivation is still being investigated.

Violent crime is uncommon in Japan, which has a low murder rate and some of the strictest firearms prohibitions in the world.

However, stabbings and even shootings occur on occasion, including the assassination of Japanese former prime minister Shinzo Abe last year.

On Halloween 2021, a 24-year-old man allegedly attacked a passenger and set fire to a train in Tokyo while dressed as the comic book villain the Joker.

On July 31, a verdict in that lawsuit is expected.

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