The incident involving a 25-year-old unemployed man in Suita has worsened the public’s fears after a string of knife assaults in Japan
The incident took place at around 7.40pm on Sunday at a 7-Eleven in a residential district of Suita city, just north of central Osaka. Police said the suspect entered the store and immediately attacked a 28-year-old female customer who was standing in line at the register, stabbing her in the back with a kitchen knife.
The woman, an office worker and a resident, sustained injuries to five areas of her back, according to police reports. Witnesses and store employees subdued the attacker until officers arrived. The woman is in stable condition after treatment in a hospital.
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