Three injured in stabbing incident on Tokyo train, woman in custody (updated)

East Japan Railway

03/01/2024 15:04

(Recasts with updated information from police)
       TOKYO, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Three men were injured on
Wednesday in a stabbing incident and taken to hospital after a
woman wielded a knife on a train at Akihabara Station in Tokyo,
Japanese police said.
        The police received an emergency call at just before 11
p.m. local time (1400 GMT) saying the woman had inflicted
injuries with a knife on the Yamanote loop line, one of the
busiest transport routes in the city, a Tokyo Metropolitan
Police Department spokesperson said. 
  
        The woman was taken into custody and the condition of
the three injured men was unknown, the spokesperson said.
  
        Kyodo news agency reported that none of the victims had
suffered life-threatening injuries. 
  
        Public broadcaster NHK initially reported that four
people had been stabbed.
  
        East Japan Railway Company said the Yamanote loop line
was briefly suspended due to "trouble on the train".
  
        Akihabara, traditionally home to retailers of
electronics and gadgets, is a major tourism hotspot in Tokyo and
has become synonymous with video games, comic books and
outlandish fashion.
  

 (Reporting by Satoshi Sugiyama
Editing by Alexandra Hudson and Gareth Jones)
 ((Satoshi.Sugiyama@thomsonreuters.com;))