(Update) Man Arrested after 2 Injured in Tokyo Knife Incident

   Tokyo, May 7 (Jiji Press)--Police arrested a 43-year-old man who reportedly brandished a knife and injured two people at Todaimae Station on Tokyo Metro Co.'s Namboku Line in the capital's Bunkyo Ward on Wednesday evening.
   At around 7 p.m., police received an emergency call from station staff that a man was brandishing a knife.
   According to investigative sources, the suspect waved around a knife on a stationary train at the station, and cut two men who boarded the train.
   Of the two, a man in his 20s was taken to hospital after suffering a cut to the head. The other, believed to be a foreigner in his 30s, was injured in the hand. Both were conscious, and are believed to be strangers to the suspect.
   Another passenger took the knife from the suspect and held him down, the sources said.

(2025/05/07-22:24)

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