{"id":138967,"date":"2018-06-10T04:22:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T04:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/deadly-stabbing-on-japan-bullet-train\/"},"modified":"2018-06-10T04:22:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T04:22:07","slug":"deadly-stabbing-on-japan-bullet-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/deadly-stabbing-on-japan-bullet-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly stabbing on Japan bullet train"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rescue workers at Odawara station after a Japanese Shinkansen bullet train made an emergency stop on its way from Tokyo to the western city of Osaka due to a man holding an edged tool attacked passengers, Japan, 9 June 2018\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/14F05\/production\/_101956758_hi047335705.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Reuters<figcaption>Image caption                                      Emergency services arrived at Odawara station to assist those injured in the stabbing                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A man has been arrested on suspicion of killing a passenger and injuring two others in a knife attack on a bullet train in Japan, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The fatal stabbing occurred at about 22:00 local time (13:00 GMT) on Saturday on board a Shinkansen train travelling from Tokyo to Osaka. <\/p>\n<p>Police detained the suspect after storming the carriage when the vehicle stopped at Odawara station.<\/p>\n<p>The train was carrying more than 800 passengers at the time of the incident. <\/p>\n<p>Officials say a male passenger taken to hospital with neck wounds later died from his injuries. The other two victims are both women, according to local media. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apology after train departs seconds early<\/li>\n<li>Japan country profile<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What happened?<\/h2>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      A bullet train at Odawara Station                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The suspect, named as Ichiro Kojima, 22, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, a local police spokesman told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kojima told police he had picked victims at random and had been armed with &quot;multiple bladed objects&quot; on the train, Japanese broadcaster NHK reports.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said passengers were in tears as they attempted to flee in panic.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;All of a sudden, a lot of passengers were dashing... people panicked,&quot; one male passenger told the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun.<\/p>\n<h2>How common are such attacks?<\/h2>\n<p>They are rare in Japan, which has one of the lowest rates of violent crime in the developed world.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, a man died after setting himself on fire on board a bullet train. A female passenger was also killed and more than 20 people were injured as the fire and smoke spread throughout the carriages. <\/p>\n<figure>             Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionFootage captured the smoke-filled carriage in the 2015 incident<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright ReutersImage caption Emergency services arrived at Odawara station to assist those injured in the stabbing A man has been arrested on suspicion of killing a passenger and injuring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}