At least ten people have been stabbed by a man on a train in Tokyo.
Gatekeepers News reports that Tokyo Fire Department says at least ten people were stabbed by a man with a knife on a train in the capital of Japan on Friday night.
The department stated that they responded to a call at 8:38 pm and found victims with bloodstains when they arrived at the scene.
According to the department, all victims were conscious and one person walked away on their own, adding that
no deaths have been reported.
Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK, reported that the suspect who walked to a convenience store, turned himself in, saying to the clerk, “I am the suspect of the crime that’s playing in the news right now. I’m tired of running.”
Tokyo Metropolitan Police also confirmed that the man admitted the charge and confessed he “just wanted to kill any women who looked happy anyone,” NHK reported.
The suspect appears to be in his 30s, and the store clerk said he had bloodstains on a part of his body.
The stabbing occurred on an Odakyu Line train, between Seijogakuen-mae station and Soshigaya-Okura station in Setagaya Ward.
A recorded video posted on social media by one of the passengers shows medical workers who were on the train putting on plastic gloves.
Although violent crime is rare in Japan, there has been a spate of violent knife attacks by assailants unknown to the victims.
In June 2008, a man jumped out of a light truck into a crowd in the popular Akihabara district and started stabbing pedestrians, leaving seven dead.
