A man wanted by police for murder was arrested Sunday after allegedly attacking eight people with what appeared to be a knife in front of a shopping mall in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, police said. One of the victims, 27-year-old Takahiro Yamagami from Ami in the prefecture, died later in hospital, Ibaraki prefectural police said.
Police identified the arrested man as Masahiro Kanagawa, 24, who was placed on the wanted list Friday on suspicion of stabbing to death 72-year-old Tsuchiura resident Yoshikazu Miura on Wednesday. Among the eight attacked in the Sunday incident is a police officer from the Tsuchiura police station.
Kanagawa stabbed the victims outside the entrance of the Samparu shopping mall around 11 a.m., according to supermarket operator Nagasakiya, one of the tenants of the mall. The incident occurred near Arakawaoki Station on East Japan Railway Co's Joban Line.
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