【Text/Observer Network Zhang Zhaodong】
On the evening of October 31, Halloween night, a man dressed as a "clown" on the Tokyo subway in Japan injured someone with a knife and set fire to the car. The smoke in the carriage was filled with fire, the passengers fled for their lives in a hurry, and after the train stopped urgently, some people directly fled through the window. It is reported that the incident caused a total of 17 injuries, including a man in his 70s who was stabbed in the right chest and seriously injured unconscious. The assailant was arrested on the spot by the police and sentenced to death after claiming that he wanted to kill people.
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According to NHK, Yomiuri Shimbun and other Japanese media reports, at about 8 p.m. that night, passengers of the Keio Line Express train (10 carriages) in Chofu City, Tokyo, Japan, called the police, saying that "someone was holding a knife."
It is reported that the train left the station at 7:54 p.m. and drove to the next station, Ming Dynasty Front Station. Two minutes later, passengers reported to the train attendant that someone had committed the crime with a knife.
The knife-wielding man first stabbed a man sitting in carriage 3 with a knife, and then he sprinkled oily liquid on car 5 and set fire to the car. It wasn't until 30 minutes later that the fire was extinguished.
"The prisoner took a large knife, put the liquid like gasoline in a plastic bottle, and threw it on the passengers." A female passenger in her 20s on the train said.
A 34-year-old man who claimed to be in the same compartment as the suspect said: "I heard the roar, and then I heard the sound of 'run away'. Because there was a mother holding a child in the carriage, I wanted to let her escape quickly. I heard a voice shouting 'swing the knife', and when I looked back, something like smoke came out. Some people shouted 'Let's use fire extinguishers', and others wanted to open the tram door and escape. ”
According to the live video, after the incident, the passengers fled for their lives in a hurry, crowding into the last carriage, and behind them, the flames and smoke in the carriage began to spread. The train stopped urgently at the Kokuei Station on the Keio Line, and the passengers could not wait for the door of the train to open, so they began to roll out of the window to escape.
The assailant sat calmly in his seat, crossed Erlang's legs, smoking in his left hand and holding a knife in his right hand. In addition, this person is wearing a green shirt, tie, glasses, a blue suit jacket and a purple trench coat, similar to the classic villain "Joker" in the movie "Batman", and someone on the scene said: "I thought it was Halloween dress." ”
The suspect smoked calmly
The Yomiuri Shimbun reported that the suspect was arrested with a prop about 30 centimeters long, and he claimed to be Kyota Hattori, now 24 years old, with an unknown occupation and address. In the subsequent investigation, the suspect confessed: "I want to be sentenced to death after killing people, [this matter] refers to the Oda Kyu line incident." ”
The suspect was arrested
On the evening of August 6 this year, an indiscriminate killing occurred in a train on the Odakyu Line in Tokyo, Japan, in which a 36-year-old man wounded people with a knife, injuring 10 people and stopping trains. The man surrendered an hour and a half after the crime. Japanese media reported that the man did not have a job and confessed to the police that he began to hate women 6 years ago and "wanted to kill people".
Suspect in Oda Kyukyu's knife-wielding case Source: Asahi Shimbun
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Agency, a knife-wielding arson incident on the Keio Line express train that occurred on the evening of the 31st caused a total of 17 injuries. Among them, a man in his 70s was stabbed in the right chest and was unconscious and dying, while 16 other passengers aged 10 to 60 were taken to hospital for inhaling thick smoke.
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