TOKYO. The man suspected of the knife attack that took place yesterday in Tokyo on a train of the Odakyu Electric Railway, in which ten people were injured, was arrested today in Japan. The arrested man was identified as Yusuke Tsushima, 36, and charged with attempted murder for stabbing a woman, a student in serious condition who suffered various back and neck injuries. According to reports from the Japanese news agency “Kyodo”, Tsushima admitted his responsibility saying that for years he wanted to “kill happy-looking women”. Together with the young woman who was the first target of the assailant, four other women were injured, plus five men.
There were about 400 passengers on board the train. The perpetrator managed to escape but was arrested in the night in a convenience store in the Suginami neighborhood by the police, to which he did not resist. After the attack, the railway operator Odakyu temporarily suspended service between Shinjuku station in Tokyo and Mukogaoka-yuen station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa prefecture. With the Olympics underway in the capital, the Ministry of Transport has urged all railway companies to be fully monitored with security personnel and cameras.
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