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Tokyo Subway Knife And Fire Attack Leaves 17 Injured
A knife and arson attack on an underground train line in Tokyo has left 17 injured, local media say.
Police arrested a 24-year-old man, who was wearing a costume similar to the Joker char- acter from the Batman comics.
The attack hap- pened as many people headed for Halloween par- ties. Witnesses say the suspect sprayed a clear liquid around the carriage and set it alight.
Video footage showed passen- gers running through carriages away from flames and clambering out of train win- dows.
The attack hap- pened at around 20:00 local time
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and we jumped from the win- dows," he said.
The suspect, who was arrested at the scene, told authorities he "wanted to kill people so he could be sen- tenced to death", local media reported.
Violent crime is rare in Japan but there have been a number of high- profile knife attacks in recent years.
Ten people were injured by a knife- wielding man on another Tokyo commuter train in August. In 2019, a man attacked a group of school- children waiting for a bus in Kawasaki, killing two and injuring at least 18 others.
(11:00 GMT) near Kokuryo station, in the city's west- ern suburbs. Eyewitnesses said the suspect was wearing a bright purple and green suit.
"I thought it was a Halloween stunt," one witness told the Yomiuri news- paper about the
attack. "Then, I saw a man walk- ing this way, slow- ly waving a long knife."
The AP news agency, citing the Tokyo Fire Department, said three of the injured had seri- ous wounds. Local media reports an elderly
man was uncon- scious after being stabbed in the attack.
Video from the scene shows pas- sengers running from the attacker, stumbling through a connecting door between car- riages and climb- ing through the train's windows
after it made an emergency stop.
Shunsuke Kimura, who filmed one of the videos, told the national NHK broadcaster that the scene was "horrifying". "Train doors were closed and we had no idea what was happening,
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