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Police officers overpower knife-wielding man in Akihabara

Thursday, 26 June 2008

Two police officers overpowered a knife-wielding man in the Akihabara district of Tokyo Thursday afternoon after struggling with him, police said. One of the officers suffered slight injuries when he arrested the man for obstructing officers from performing their official duties. The man, who is about 170 centimeters tall and was wearing a black jacket and navy blue jeans, remained silent during questioning. The scene is located about 60 meters north of an intersection where a deadly stabbing rampage occurred on June 8. At around 1:25 p.m. on Thursday, the two officers spoke to the man who was walking on a sidewalk on the Chuo Dori street in Chiyoda-ku in a bid to question him when they found a knife in his rucksack, local police said. A 31-year-old senior officer immediately took away the knife from him. The officers put him into a police car for questioning when he suddenly grabbed his knife back from the senior officer and escaped from the vehicle. The officer chased him for about three meters and overpowered him. The officer suffered slight slash wounds to one of his hands while the other, a 40-year-old sergeant, was not injured. (Mainichi Japan) June 26, 2008

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