On a train going to and from Tokyo, Japan, a man dressed as a character from a movie wielded a weapon and set fire, injuring 17 people. The suspect was caught smoking at the scene after the crime and was caught by the police.
Correspondent Koh Ji-hyun.
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Surprised passengers from the running train scream and continue to run into the carriages behind them.
Flames rise from the carriage in front, followed by the sound of an explosion.
When the train stops, passengers break the car windows and escape to the platform.
Yesterday (31st) around 8:00 pm, Japanese media reported that a 24-year-old man wielded a weapon and set fire on the Keio Line while driving in Chofu, Tokyo, Japan, injuring 17 people.
Three people were seriously injured, including a man in his 60s who was stabbed and unconscious.
Some local media reported that the suspect also sprayed liquid believed to be hydrochloric acid.
[목격자 : 범행을 시작하려고 액체를 뿌리는 순간, 지금밖에 없다는 생각으로 저도 도망쳤어요.]
The suspect, wearing a green shirt and a purple coat like the villain ‘Joker’ in the cartoon ‘Batman’, was caught by the police immediately after smoking a cigarette in the carriage.
The suspect, who said to the police, “I wanted to be executed by killing people,” is said to have used the previous train knife riot as an example.
Last August, during the Olympic Games, a man attacked a train on the Odakyu Line in Tokyo, injuring 10 people.
In Japan, in 2019, a man wielded a weapon on a road in Kawasaki City near Tokyo, killing one elementary school student and one adult and injuring 17 others.
Also earlier in 2018, a knife riot occurred on a Shinkansen high-speed train, killing one person and injuring two others.
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