A person was arrested after stabbing eight folks and injuring seven others with what was believed to be bleach at a rubber manufacturing unit in central Japan on Friday, officers stated.
Eight folks had been taken to hospitals after being stabbed by the person with a knife on the Yokohama Rubber Firm within the metropolis of Mishima, within the Shizuoka prefecture, west of Tokyo, based on the Fujisan Nanto Fireplace Division.
The division instructed The Related Press 5 of the folks stabbed had been in critical situation however different particulars weren’t obtainable.
Seven others had been injured by the liquid thrown at them in the course of the assault, the hearth division stated.
Shizuoka prefectural police stated the attacker, a 38-year-old man, was arrested for alleged tried homicide on the manufacturing unit.
French information company AFP stories that The Asahi Shimbun day by day newspaper quoted investigative sources as saying that the person had ties to the manufacturing unit. He was sporting what seemed to be a gasoline masks, the paper and different media stated. Asahi additionally stated he was apparently armed with what it described as a survival knife.
Violent crime is comparatively uncommon in Japan, which has a low homicide charge and a number of the world’s hardest gun legal guidelines.
