Three people stabbed outside University of Tokyo | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
Police have arrested a 17-year-old boy on suspicion of stabbing three people outside a campus of the University of Tokyo. They say all three are conscious and being treated at hospital.
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TOKYO – A 17-year-old high school student has been arrested for attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed three people outside the University of Tokyo on Saturday (Jan 15), the first day of nationwide university entrance examinations.
The alleged assailant, who lives and attends school in Nagoya, a city 90 minutes by bullet train from Tokyo, confessed to stabbing them in the back at around 8.30am (7.30am in Singapore).
He was arrested on the spot and a bloodstained kitchen knife was recovered from the crime scene, Tokyo Metropolitan Police said.
The Asahi newspaper, citing investigative sources, quoted the teenager as saying: “My grades are poor and I cannot study well. I thought I would die in the incident.”
The three casualties, all of whom did not know the assailant, included a 72-year-old man who lives in Tokyo, as well as two 18-year-olds – a male and a female – from nearby Chiba prefecture en route to their examination hall.
All three were conscious when they were rushed to hospital. But while the two teenagers suffered minor injuries, media reports said the elderly man underwent urgent surgery after his condition took a sudden turn for the worse
