Three dead in suspected knife attack in central Japan

Tokyo, July 29 Three members of a family were killed in a suspected knife attack in central Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture, local media reported.

At around 2:25 p.m. local time on Sunday, police received a report that a man was running wildly around a house in a residential area in the city of Kikugawa, and officers rushed to the scene, Jiji Press reported.

The report said the three – Shoichi Shibuya, 87, his wife Ikuko, 81, and their daughter Rumiko, 52 – were found with apparent stab wounds and their deaths were only confirmed after they were taken to hospital, Xinhua news agency reported.

A man in his twenties, presumably a relative of the victims, is on the run and police are trying to arrest him on suspicion of murder, it said.

According to Shizuoka Prefectural Police, a knife was found at the crime scene.

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