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A man with a knife stabbed three nursing staff and a policeman at a hospital in western Japan on Friday in the latest stabbing incident in the country.
Tokyo – .. According to the Reuters news agency, police said the nursing staff had been stabbed in the chest and abdomen, but their wounds were not serious, adding that the policeman was also injured in the left arm.
Police arrested a 45-year-old man who stabbed a nursing staff member and fled. The other two persons and the policeman were injured while trying to arrest the perpetrator.
Violent crime is rare in Japan and most crimes involve knives or swords because of the country's strict firearms laws.
In May, a man with a knife stabbed a group of schoolgirls at a bus station, killing one schoolgirl and injuring 16 others in an accident that shocked Japan.
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