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    A 24-year-old man dressed up as the Joker on Halloween and attacked passengers on a Tokyo train

    JackfrootBy JackfrootNovember 1, 2021Updated:November 1, 2021No Comments3 Mins Read
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    A 24-year-old man dressed up as the Joker, the villain from Batman, and attacked several passengers on a Tokyo train line on Sunday (Oct 31) evening, leaving 17 people injured as many people were headed into the city for Halloween parties and events.

    Police quickly made it to the scene and arrested the suspect, identified as Kyota Hattori, on the spot, the media reported.

    An elderly man in the ages of 60-70s was left unconscious and in critical condition after being stabbed in the chest. Witnesses said that the suspect then began pouring a flammable liquid around the train and set it on fire.

    One video uploaded on Twitter and broadcast on NHK showed a steady stream of people running away from a train car where, seconds later, a small explosion caused a fire.

    京王線社内で火災発生 pic.twitter.com/94cLtJkDy4

    — しずくβ (@siz33) October 31, 2021

    Another video showed passengers rushing to squeeze out of the train’s windows and onto the platform where the train had made an emergency stop.

    京王線火災で逃げる人々 pic.twitter.com/ZfN1pD0C2V

    — しずくβ (@siz33) October 31, 2021

    “I thought it was a Halloween stunt,” one witness told the Yomiuri newspaper, recalling the moment he saw other passengers running in a panic towards his train car. “Then, I saw a man walking this way, slowly waving a long knife.”

    He said there was blood on the knife.

    The attacker carried out the act without showing any emotion, a female passenger said. 

    “He held a knife and started spreading liquid,” she said.  “He was committing this act without showing any emotion, just mechanically. I think that brought fear to everyone.”

    Kyodo reported that the suspect had told investigators he “wanted to kill people and be given the death penalty”. He also told them he had spread lighter fluid in the train.

    Another video on Twitter showed a bespectacled man dressed in a purple suit and bright green shirt, as worn by the Joker, seated in an empty train puffing on a cigarette, his legs crossed and looking calm.

    https://twitter.com/NewsForAllUK/status/1454824376528945158

    He can be seen through the window being surrounded by law enforcement in a subsequent clip. 

    The attack occurred on the Keio express line bound for Shinjuku, the world’s busiest rail station, around 8pm.

    The line operator said services had been partially suspended after “an incident involving injuries” near Kokuryo in the Japanese capital’s western suburbs.

    TV footage showed scores of firefighters and police and emergency vehicles outside the station where the train had stopped.

    In August, a day before the Tokyo Olympic games, a 36-year-old man also attacked and stabbed 10 passengers on another commuter train. The suspect later turned himself in after fleeing the scene.

    In a different attack in August, two people suffered burns in an acid attack at a Tokyo subway station.

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