Police arrest a 22-year-old unemployed suspect on suspicion of attempted murder
A man was arrested in central Japan after stabbing one person to death and injuring two others aboard a bullet train on Saturday night, a rare violent assault in the Asian nation.
The suspect, identified as Ichiro Kojima, attacked the victims around 10:00pm aboard the shinkansen train which was travelling from Tokyo to a station in Osaka, Kyodo News reported.
Police arrested the 22-year-old unemployed suspect on suspicion of attempted murder, the report said.
A man in his thirties was killed in the assault and two women in their twenties were wounded.
