Tokyo man goes on 15 person stabbing spree
Pastor Dale Morgan
Tokyo man goes on 15 person stabbing spree*
Rescue workers tend to the injured in Tokyo's Akihabara district
Seventeen ambulances were sent to the scene
BBC - A man armed with a knife has killed two people and injured at
least 12 in central Tokyo, Japanese media say.
The incident occurred in the Akihabara district, a shopping area known
as Electric Town that is popular with young people and tourists.
Five of the victims suffered cardiac arrest, a spokesman for the Tokyo
Fire Department told AP news agency.
A suspect, said to be a 25-year-old self-proclaimed gangster, has been
arrested at the scene.
NHK television said two men, aged 19 and 74, had died.
Reports say the man drove a vehicle into a crowd in the early afternoon
and then began stabbing people at random.
Correspondents say such incidents are rare in Japan, though there has
been an increase in knife crime in recent years.