Police in Tokyo arrested an 86-year-old man suspected of carrying out a shooting at a hospital and then taking hostages at a post office. Two hostages were freed safely during the incident, and the suspect was apprehended after a standoff with police.
at a post office on Tuesday by arresting the suspect after two hostages were freed safely during an attack authorities said could be related to an earlier shooting at a hospital., about an hour after the hospital shooting in which two people were wounded in the nearby city of Toda.
Police said they were investigating the hospital and post office attacks together because of a possibility they are related. They are also looking into a fire that broke out at a building, which is reportedly the suspect's apartment block, near the hospital around the time of the shooting. Police are also examining details of the gun, including if it was modified, and how he obtained it, as well as his background and motives. Kyodo News agency said he was also carrying two knives, a kerosene container and a bottle containing an unidentified liquid.
The victims were both conscious and their wounds are not life-threatening, police said. Kyodo News said the two were believed to be inside a consultation room on the first floor when they were attacked, and that cracks were found in the window.In a third incident being investigated by police, a fire that broke out at an apartment building near the hospital in Toda around the time of the shooting.
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