Police investigators examine an area near the scene where multiple passersby were injured in a knifing spree in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, July 28, 2025. Photo: Jiji Press
The six victims, aged between 27 and 75, are all conscious and their injuries are not life-threatening, Ibaraki prefectural police said.
The police arrested Hirokazu Shiobara, a resident of Mito, on suspicion of attempting to murder a 70-year-old man from Higashiyamato, Tokyo, by stabbing him in the face and right wrist.
Investigators think that Shiobara may have attacked them indiscriminately as the suspect appears to have no acquaintance with the victims.
The police seized four knives of various types, some stained with blood.
The suspect admitted to the allegations, saying he slashed a person with a knife on a road near his house, according to the police.
Among the six victims, the Higashiyamato man and a 65-year-old male company employee from Mito, who also had his right wrist cut, suffered serious injuries.
The other four were slightly injured.
A neighbor who witnessed the incident said, "A man with something like a survival knife slashed a passerby on the street."
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