Woman dies from random stabbing in Tokyo bookstore

Woman dies from random stabbing in Tokyo bookstore

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers are posted at the entrance of a building in Hachioji, Tokyo in the early hours of July 23 where two women inside an 11th-floor bookstore were stabbed at random by a 33-year-old man late July 22. One woman, an employee at the bookshop, died from her wounds. The attacker, a company employee who was later arrested by police, allegedly told investigators that he had difficulties at work and wanted to stab ''just anyone.''

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