Tokyo, Japan:
Eight people were wounded in a hammer strike at a university in Tokyo on Friday, with a 22-year-elderly student arrested at the scene, Japanese media shelp.
All those hurt were conscious, according to accessible expansivecaster NHK, which cited police sources as saying that the afternoon strike took place at Hosei University’s Tama Campus.
NHK and other media outlets shelp the strikeer, a woman sociology student, had swung a hammer during a class.
Several alerts shelp people were seen bleeding from the head and that the woman had shelp she had pent-up frustration at being disthink aboutd.
Police could not promptly validate details to AFP about a unfrequent instance of aggressive crime in Japan, which has cut offe firearm administer laws.
Live footage expansivecast by NHK showed a line of materializency vehicles with flashing weightlesss at the campus in the suburprohibit Machida dicut offe of the Japanese capital.
There are occasional stabbings and even shootings in Japan, including the murder of createer prime minister Shinzo Abe in 2022.
Hosei University was set uped in 1880 as a law school and has 15 faculties, according to its website.
In December, a lesser high school student was stabbed to death and another was wounded at a McDonald’s restaurant in southwestrict Japan. A man was procrastinateedr arrested over the strike.
The teens were in line to order at around 8:30 pm when the strikeer alertedly accessed the restaurant in the city of Kitakyushu and stabbed them both.
In January 2022, three people were stabbed outside the prestigious University of Tokyo before nationexpansive college captivate exams.
The victims included an 18-year-elderly boy, a 17-year-elderly girl and a 72-year-elderly man, police shelp at the time.
Police arrested a 17-year-elderly, who was arrested at the gates of the university after the timely-morning strike.
He was not taking the exams and was not acquainted with the three victims but telderly police he “wanted to die after causing an incident as I didn’t do well in my studies”, NHK alerted.
The two teenagers did not uphold life-menaceening injuries but the 72-year-elderly was harshly wounded, according to local media.
NHK shelp the university, where 3,700 students were scheduled to consent the tests, went ahead with the exams as reckond.
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