TOKYO: Japanese police on Friday (May 26) detained a suspect who had been holed up in a building after allegedly killing four people including two police officers in a gun and knife attack, an official told AFP. The man was taken into custody outside the farm property near the city of Nakano in Nagano regi
TOKYO: Japanese police on Friday detained a suspect who had been holed up in a building after allegedly killing four people including two police officers in a gun and knife attack, an official told AFP.
The suspect hid for several hours in the house, which belonged to his father - the speaker of the Nakano city assembly, the Kyodo news agency said. Authorities had urged people to stay indoors in the semi-rural area of central Japan after the rampage started on Thursday afternoon.Two women, including the suspect's mother, had escaped the house where the suspect was holed up, one at around 8.35pm and the other soon after midnight.A witness told the NHK public broadcaster he had been working at a farm nearby when"a woman came running from the road saying, 'help me', and she fell down".
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