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A stabbing incident was reported in the center of Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan on the morning of the 22nd. The suspect was a 29-year-old manager of a restaurant in Kusabacho, Chuo District. He stabbed three young female employees with a knife. The patients were sent to the hospital for treatment and all were conscious.
Reports pointed out that the male suspect fled the scene after the incident and was found hiding in a nearby building. The police arrested him on suspicion of attempted murder. After investigation, the male suspect has confessed, but the motive for the crime still needs to be clarified.
The incident took place dozens of meters away from a busy commercial street in downtown Kumamoto, lined with restaurants and shops. Immediately after the incident, multiple police and emergency personnel rushed to the scene, causing an uproar.
The owner of a bar near the scene of the crime said, "My wife saw a stabbed woman running out of the building, holding a knife in her hand and screaming for help." A courier later assisted. The police revealed that the three injured people ranged in age from their 10s to their 20s, and they were all conscious and fine when they were sent to the hospital.
日本熊本29歲餐廳店長砍人遭逮！3女員工遭刺 拿染血菜刀大喊救命 | 聯合新聞網
日本九州熊本市中心22日上午傳出砍人事件，嫌犯為29歲任職中央區草葉町一間餐廳的店長，他持刀砍傷3名年輕女員工，患者送醫...
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