A policeman was stabbed to death by a knife-wielding man at a police box in the northeastern Japan city of Sendai early on Wednesday.
A policeman was stabbed to death by a knife-wielding man at a police box in the northeastern Japan city of Sendai early on Wednesday.
The attacker was shot by another police officer on the scene.
The policeman, Hiroaki Seino, 33, and the attacker were confirmed dead after being taken to hospital.
The Miyagi prefectural police said the attacker has been identified as university student Yuta Aizawa, 21, a resident of Miyagino Ward of Sendai, the prefecture’s capital.
