Japanese police on Tuesday arrested an elderly man who barricaded himself in a post office and kept hostages at gunpoint for several hours after he shot two people at a nearby hospital.
Japanese police on Tuesday arrested a man who barricaded himself in a post office and kept hostages at gunpoint for several hours after he shot two people at a nearby hospital. Police first responded at around 1 p.m. local time to a shooting at Toda Chou General Hospital in the city of Warabi in Saitama Prefecture, which left two men — a doctor in his 40s and a patient in his 60s — with non-life-threatening injuries.
Despite the extremely tight gun laws, the Japan Times claims that around 10 to 50 shootings have happened annually over the past decade, but most of those incidents were reportedly related to individuals 'linked to organized crime.' A motive for Tuesday's shooting remains unknown, but an investigation is ongoing.
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