A 24-year-old man wearing Batman’s Joker costume attacked passengers on a Tokyo practice line on Sunday night, injuring 17 individuals as many party-goers headed into the town centre for Halloween gatherings.
Police arrested the suspected attacker on the spot, media reported. A person believed to be in his 60s was unconscious and in important situation after being stabbed, whereas witnesses additionally stated the attacker had unfold fluid across the practice and began a fireplace, in response to media.
One video uploaded on Twitter confirmed a gradual stream of individuals operating away from a practice automotive the place, seconds later, a blaze lit up. One other video confirmed passengers speeding to squeeze out of the practice’s home windows and onto the platform the place the practice had made an emergency cease.
“I assumed it was a Halloween stunt,” one witness informed the Yomiuri newspaper, recalling the second he noticed different passengers operating in a panic in the direction of his practice automotive. “Then, I noticed a person strolling this fashion, slowly waving an extended knife.” There was blood on the knife, he stated.