Woman knifed on Sapporo subway train
The Yomiuri Shimbun
A 22-year-old woman was seriously injured when she was stabbed in the left side of her chest and shoulder by a man with a kitchen knife on a Sapporo City Subway train running between Misono and Tsukisamu-chuo stations at about 7:20 a.m. Thursday.
Another passenger used an emergency alarm to inform a train conductor of the incident. The conductor overpowered the man and handed him over to police officers who responded to a call from the train operations room.
Hiroshi Ikeda, a 64-year-old unemployed man of Kiyota Ward, Sapporo, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
The woman was taken to a hospital.
Ikeda and the woman did not know each other. Ikeda was quoted by the police as saying: "I just tried to kill her. I wanted to kill anyone."
(Sep. 14, 2007)