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☆ Japan: Suspected shooter barricades himself in Toda city post office after 2 wounded at nearby hospital, police say
  + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Junko Ogura | Mayumi Maruyama | Akanksha Sharma | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
Tokyo CNN —A suspected gunman has barricaded himself in a post office in central Japan after two people were wounded and apparent gunshots heard in a hospital nearby, authorities said Tuesday. One doctor and one male patient were injured in the incident at a hospital in Toda city, Saitama prefecture, near Tokyo, police told CNN. The male suspect, believed to be between ages 50 and 70, fled the scene and barricaded himself in the Warabi post office, about 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) from the hospital, according to police. Toda Mayor Fumihito Sugawara confirmed on social media that a man “suspected of carrying a gun” was barricaded in at the post office and warned residents not to go near the area. The area around a post office where a suspected gunman has barricaded himself in Warabi, Saitama prefecture on October 31, 2023.
Persons: Toda, Fumihito Sugawara, JIJI Press, Shinzo Abe Organizations: Tokyo CNN, CNN, JIJI, Getty Images Police, NHK Locations: Japan, Toda, Saitama prefecture, Tokyo, Warabi, Nara
☆ Suspected gunman takes hostages in Japanese post office - authorities
  + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsTOKYO, Oct 31 (Reuters) - A suspected gunman took at least two people hostage in a post office in Japan after wounding two other people in a shooting at a hospital, authorities and media said on Tuesday. At least two female post office workers in their 20s and 30s were taken hostage, local media reported. Two people were injured at the hospital, media reported. Images broadcast on television showed a man wearing a track suit top and white shirt standing just inside the post office brandishing what looked like a pistol. There were just nine shooting incidents last year, according to the national police agency, of which six were related to criminal gangs.
Persons: Shinzo Abe, Sugiyama Satoshi, Sakura Murakami, Tim Kelly, John Geddie, Christian Schmollinger, Ed Osmond Organizations: Police, Kyodo, REUTERS Acquire, Rights, NHK, Thomson Locations: Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, Tokyo, Toda
☆ Suspected Gunman Holds a Hostage in Post Office Near Tokyo
  + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Motoko Rich | Hikari Hida | More About Motoko Rich | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
A man believed to have a gun was holed up in a post office in a Tokyo suburb on Tuesday and holding one hostage after releasing another, in an episode that was unsettling in Japan, where gun violence is extremely rare. An employee inside the post office, in Warabi city, called the police at around 2:15 p.m., saying there was a gunman inside, according to Taira Masuda, a spokesman for the police headquarters in Saitama Prefecture. Around 7:15 p.m., NHK, a public broadcaster, showed footage of the woman in her 20s walking out of the post office without injury. Another official, the mayor of Toda, said on social media that a man had fired a handgun at Toda Chuo General Hospital and fled on a motorcycle. In the broadcaster’s footage, it appeared that the woman who was released on Tuesday evening bowed as she left the post office.
Persons: Taira Masuda, Masuda, Toda Organizations: NHK, General Hospital Locations: Tokyo, Japan, Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, Toda city
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