More than a dozen people were injured in a stabbing attack in a factory in central Japan during which an unspecified liquid was also sprayed, an emergency services official said on Friday.
“Fourteen people are subject to transport by emergency services,” said Tomoharu Sugiyama, a firefighting department official in the city of Mishima, in the Shizuoka region.
He said a call was received at about 4.30pm from a nearby rubber factory saying “five or six people were stabbed by someone” and that a “spray-like liquid” had also been used.
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Japanese media, including public broadcaster NHK, reported that police had arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder.
The Asahi newspaper daily quoted investigative sources as saying that the man in his 30s was someone connected to the factory.
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He was wearing what appeared to be a gas mask, the newspaper and other media said.
Asahi also said that he was apparently armed with what it described as a survival knife.