Convenience store stabbing in Japan kills one, injures two, NHK says

25/2/2024 12:59

        One person has died and two more were injured on Sunday morning in a stabbing incident in a convenience store in Sapporo on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido.
        
        According to NHK, Seicomart convenience store employee in the regional capital Sapporo told local police a man was behaving aggressively with something looking like a kitchen knife before 0700 local time (2200 GMT).
        
        NHK said, citing police, three employees in their 40s to 60s were stabbed and injured, with a man in his 40s taken to the hospital where he later died. Two others, a man and a woman, remained conscious.
        
        NHK added, an unemployed 43-year-old local was arrested on the spot on suspicion of attempted murder.
        
        In January, three men were injured in a stabbing incident in Akihabara tourism hotspot in Tokyo but public violence remains low in Japan.