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Man stabs three to death, injures 14 others on Tokyo street

Other News Materials 8 June 2008 14:16 (UTC +04:00)

Three men were killed and 14 other people were injured in a stabbing rampage in Tokyo Sunday, police reported.

Tomihiro Kato, 25, went out on a stabbing spree Sunday afternoon in Tokyo's Akihabara district, before being arrested by police, the dpa reported.

A total of 17 people, 14 men and three women, were taken to a nearby hospital, according to the National Police Agency.

Three males aged 19, 47 and 74 died at the hospital.

Kato first hit pedestrians with a truck and then began stabbing people with a knife in broad daylight on an Akihabara street.

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