Random stabbing attack in Japan

[Anchor]

Another indiscriminate stabbing incident has occurred in Japan.

In front of a busy train station, an assailant wielded a knife, resulting in one death and two injuries.

This is Tokyo correspondent Hwang Jin-woo.

[Report]

We are in front of JR Nagano Station, the gateway to Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

Around 8 PM yesterday, the previously calm station area turned into chaos.

An assailant appeared and began attacking people in front of the train station and the bus stop with a knife.

Without a chance to resist, a 49-year-old man was killed, and a man in his 30s and a woman in her 40s were injured.

Even after knocking down the victims, the assailant lingered in front of the station for a while.

[Witness: "He was holding something like a knife and was wandering around. It looked like he was searching for his next target rather than fleeing."]

The Japanese police have released footage of the assailant captured on CCTV and are tracking his whereabouts.

He is believed to be a middle-aged man wearing a white headscarf.

While there have been indiscriminate murder cases on the streets in Japan before, they typically occurred in large cities like Tokyo.

However, this murder took place in a quiet small city with a population of 360,000.

[Nagano City Resident: "I never thought something like this would happen in our area."]

About a month ago in Kitakyushu, a man in his 40s wielded a knife in a hamburger shop, resulting in the death of a middle school student and injuries to another.

With the repeated incidents of indiscriminate stabbings, Japanese society is expressing both anger towards the perpetrators and a call for self-reflection.

This is Hwang Jin-woo from KBS News in Tokyo.