Nine people were injured in a knife attack on a train

Nine people were injured in a knife attack on a passenger train in Tokyo on Friday, and a criminal was arrested shortly after he escaped and surrendered, local media reported.

This type of violence is very rare in Japan, and the attack comes as the country’s capital, the host city of the Olympic Games, is on high alert.

The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a passenger train in the Chetkaya district of western Tokyo. A woman in her twenties was seriously injured, according to public broadcaster NHK, citing emergency services.

The site of the attack is a few kilometers from the equestrian Olympic site.

The concerned railway company, Otaku Electric Railway, announced on its website that it had suspended part of its service. “Attack on a cloth“, Without giving further details. The train was diverted to an emergency stop.

The suspect, a youth under the age of 20, went to the shopkeeper and told the manager that he was arrested by the police, according to media reports.

According to the Kyoto News Agency, the perpetrator left his knife and phone on the train.

When asked by the AFP, local police and emergency services declined to comment immediately on the case.