The Japanese Broadcasting Corporation said that one person was killed and two others were injured Sunday morning in a stabbing accident inside a small store in the city of Sapporo on the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan.
Three store employees, whose ages ranged from their forties to their sixties, were stabbed, and a man in his forties was taken to the hospital, where he later died. The Radio and Television Corporation quoted the police as saying that the other injured, a man and a woman, did not lose consciousness.
The authority added that a 43-year-old person was arrested at the scene on charges of attempted murder.
In January, three men were injured in a stabbing in the tourist area of Akihabara in Tokyo, but violence in public places is still rare in Japan.
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