
Seven teens were arrested and papers were sent to prosecutors on 35 others on suspicion of assembling weapons for a gang fight in Kawachi-Nagano, Osaka Prefecture, police said Thursday. According to the Osaka prefectural police, a group of 22 boys aged 16 to 17 years old from Kawachi-Nagano, and a group of 20 boys of the same age from Tondabayashi, both in the prefecture, gathered in a restaurant parking lot in Kawachi-Nagano at 12:45 a.m. on May 6, and fought each other with steel pipes, metal bats and other weapons. Seven of the boys sustained broken bones while nine others had minor injuries, police said.