A Japanese man dressed as a Joker has injured 16 people in a knife attack on a Tokyo train
A 24-year-old man dressed as a Joker attacked passengers on a train line in Tokyo on Sunday evening.
17 people were injured while going to a Halloween party in the city.
Witnesses said the suspect was wearing a green shirt and a purple suit.
He sprayed a clear liquid around the car and ignited it. Video footage showed passengers running through the car away from the fire and others jumping out of windows.
“I thought it was a Halloween stunt,” an eyewitness told the Yomiuri newspaper about the attack. “Then, I saw a man walking down this path, slowly waving a long knife.”
The attack took place around 20:00 (11:00 GMT) local time near Kokurio station in the western suburbs of the city.
According to media reports, the man was arrested by the police on the spot.
According to news outlet Kyodo, he told police he liked the Joker character in Batman comics.
Joker is a super villain in comics and Batman’s eternal enemy. The 2019 hit movie Joker, starring actor Joaquin Phoenix, is shown in a scene where he attacks several men on a train after being repeatedly harassed. This is an important moment, which marks the beginning of the character’s transformation into a Joker.
The NHK news agency quoted police as saying the man said he had “wanted to kill someone since June” because he had quit his job and many of his friendships had broken down.
It added that he was dressed like a Joker because he was “looking at her”.
Local media reports say the suspect told authorities he wanted to kill the man so he could be sentenced to death.
The AP news agency quoted the Tokyo Fire Department as saying that three of the injured had serious injuries. An elderly man fainted after being stabbed in the attack, local media reported.
Video from the scene showed passengers running away from the attacker, stumbling through the connecting door in the car and getting up through the train window after an emergency stop.
Shunsuke Kimura, who filmed a video, told the national NHK broadcaster that the scene was “horrible.” “The train door was closed and we didn’t know what was happening, and we jumped out the window,” he said.
Violent crime is rare in Japan, but there have been a number of high-profile knife attacks in recent years.
Ten people were injured by a knife-wielding man on another commuter train in Tokyo in August. In 2019, a man attacked a group of schoolchildren waiting for a bus in Kawasaki, killing two and injuring at least 18.
A Japanese man dressed as a Joker has injured 16 people in a knife attack on a Tokyo train
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