Police were surrounding a post office in Japan late Tuesday as a suspected gunman held an unknown number of people hostage, with local media reporting two people injured in a possible shooting at a nearby hospital.
TOKYO (AFP) – A suspected gunman has taken an unknown number of people hostage inside a post office in Japan, authorities said Tuesday, following a suspected shooting in a nearby hospital. “At approximately 2:15 pm today (0515 GMT), a person has taken hostages and holed up at a post office in Chuo 5-chome area of […]
Authorities in Warabi, Japan, told hundreds of residents to evacuate as a man "possessing what appears to be a gun" took an unknown number of hostages.
Japanese authorities say a suspected gunman has taken an unknown number of people hostage at a post office in Warabi City near Tokyo. The incident came as police probed a shooting in the same region earlier in the day.
An armed man has barricaded himself in a post office in Japan's Saitama Prefecture, here on Tuesday, following a possibly linked shooting at a nearby hospital in which two people were wounded , local media reported.Earlier in the day, police .