1 dead, 6 injured in drive-by slashing at Japanese festival
Yet another knife-wielding maniac has gone on a killing rampage, this time at the Kuwashima Jinja shrine in central Japan. Actually, ‘knife-wielding’ is a bit inaccurate - the killer wielded a sickle used for harvesting grass. The toll stands at one dead, six wounded.
The suspect, Toshiaki Arai, said he was angry that customers had made fun of him, according to a police statement taken after his arrest at Kuwashima Jinja, a shrine in Hakusan in Ishikawa state.
Witnesses told police that Arai drove a car into the crowd of celebrants at the shrine late Saturday night, jumped out and began indiscriminately slashing people with a curved sickle normally used to cut grass, the statement said.
One of the victims, Yohei Okada, 30, died from severe blood loss, police said. Among the six men injured, two remained hospitalized Sunday afternoon.
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