By KUNA,
Tokyo : Seven people were killed and 11 others were wounded Sunday in central Tokyo after a man hit pedestrians with a truck and stabbed them with a knife.
The incident took place around 12:30 p.m. (03:30 GMT) in the Akihabara district, a busy shopping area known as “electric town” and a center of Japanese subculture, which are popular among young people, comic and animation fans as well as foreign tourists.
Police arrested the man, 25-year-old Tomohiro Kato from Shizuoka Prefecture, eastern Japan, and seized a survival knife he was carrying.
Kato told police that he came to Akihabara to kill people. “I am tired of the world. It didn’t matter whom I would kill,” he said, according to a police spokemsan.
According to witnesses, Kato ran away from his truck after hitting several pedestrians and started stabbing people at random.
The Akihabara attack occurred on the seventh anniversary of a stabbing spree by a man at Osaka’s elementary school in 2001, which left eight children dead.