The Keio railway company stated that “an incident involving wounded” had occurred shortly before 20 hours near Kokuryo, in the western suburbs of Tokyo. But the police refused to any comments.
Le Monde with AFP
A man was arrested on Sunday, October 31, after an attack on a train in Tokyo. Armed with a knife, the suspect also triggered a fire on board, announced local media, reporting 17 wounded, including one serious.
a Video filmed on board and published on Twitter showed panicked passengers in the train, fleeing flames and smoke invading wagons. Another excerpt unveiled passengers escaping from the train by the windows, while the convoy of the line Keio was immobilized in a station from the western suburbs of the Japanese capital.
The Kyodo news agency gave a 15-wounded record, while the NHK public television channel reported 17 wounded, including a serious – a man of about sixty years. The suspect, which would be over twenty years, would have attacked people with a knife and lit a fire by spreading an unidentified liquid, according to media.
Two attacks in the Nippons Transport in August
Solicited by the France-Presse agency, the police refused any comment, and the Keio railway company said that “an incident involving wounded” had occurred shortly before 20 hours (13 hours, in France) Near Kokuryo, in the western suburbs of Tokyo.
immediately after the attack, dozens of firefighters and policemen traveled on site. The facts took place while the polling stations closed in the country at the end of the parliamentary elections, as well as a very popular Halloween party in the Japanese archipelago. Aggressions are rare in Japan, where firearms legislation is also extremely strict.
In August, two other attacks took place in the public transport of Tokyo. In the early days of August, while the Olympic Games were held in the Japanese capital, a knife attack aboard another suburban train had made 10 wounded. Then, on August 24, two people had suffered sulfuric acid burns in a metro station of the capital. In both cases, suspects had been arrested shortly after.