NHK said the suspect is an 86-year-old.
Police in Japan have ended an eight-hour stand-off with a gunman at a post office by capturing the suspect after two hostages were freed safely – an attack authorities said could be related to an earlier shooting at a hospital.
Police said they captured the gunman when they stormed into the building, which took place about an hour after the second of the two postal staff who had remained in the building safely fled. NHK said the suspect is an 86-year-old resident of Toda, but police declined to release his identity prior to official announcement.Television footage showed officers wearing helmets and bulletproof vests squatting behind the doors of a patrol vehicle parked outside.
Kyodo News agency said the two were believed to be inside a consultation room on the first floor when they were attacked, and that cracks were found in the window.In a third incident being investigated by police, a fire broke out at an apartment building near the hospital in Toda around the time of the shooting.
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