[BREAKING] Mass Shooting and Hostage in Japan, After Former PM Shinzo Abe Has Been Killed
Please refresh for update breaking news, 481 days after the assassination of Abe Shinzo
Tokyo 4.21pm / DC 4.21am
Get gunfire license in Japan is harder than buy a home in US, literally. But 481 days ago, 1 shooting happened, and the late PM Abe Shinzo killed. 481 Days ago.
Today, mass shooting and hostage situation.
Gunman holed up in Japan Postal or Post Office [日本郵便株式会社, Nippon Yū-bin Kabushiki-gaisha] after hospital shooting [in Toda Chuo General Hospital].
A suspected gunman has taken an unknown number of people hostage inside a post office, around 2 - 2.5km from Toda Chuo hospital, in the Japanese city of Warabi, Saitama prefecture [埼玉県, Saitama-ken] Kanto Region of Honshu, 17 - 18 km from Tokyo.
The two injured people have been identified as an doctor and an elderly patient.
Tokyo police have displaced officers from a special investigations team that handles hostage situations to the scene, according to Japanese broadcaster NHK.
Authorities also asked people living within a 300m radius of the Warabi post office to leave the area, according to local media.
Buildings nearby have also been placed on lockdown.