A man with a gun barricaded himself in a post office in Saitama Prefecture in Japan, and special police units were sent to the scene. The newspaper reported this on October 31 “Yomiuri Shimbun”.
At the time of the seizure of the department, there were two employees there, one of whom later managed to escape, the report says.
According to the newspaper, the attacker is an 80-year-old man. At the moment, the prefectural police have surrounded the post office and are trying to persuade it to surrender.
A few hours earlier, the same person started shooting near a hospital in the Japanese city of Toda. As a result, two people were injured – a doctor and a patient. According to eyewitnesses, the shooter fled the scene on a motorcycle.
Earlier, on October 29, it became known that at least six people were killed and more than 40 were injured as a result of mass shootings over two days.
Prior to this, on October 26, after the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, US President Joe Biden called on the Republican Party representatives in Congress to pass a law banning the sale of assault weapons in the country.
The shooting in the American city occurred on October 25. The attacker opened fire on people in a bar, restaurant and store. This incident became the largest mass shooting in the United States this year.
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