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Tokyo : A man suspicious of taking two women hostage at a post office in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday was later arrested, Japan local media reported.
According to the initial report from the authorities, a man who seemed to be armed took hostage of two women in the city of Warabi, north of the capital, in the afternoon.
Police were deployed to the building around 10pm almost eight hours after the suspect barricaded himself inside.
The 86-year-old man was arrested and authorities confirmed later that the two women were unharmed.
Police believed the 86-year-old man was involved in an earlier shooting at a nearby hospital that injured two.
The shooting happened shortly after 1 p.m. on Tuesday at a hospital in Toda City. Police say a handgun was apparently fired at the hospital from a street.
They say a doctor and a patient suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The suspect then fled the scene and barricaded himself at a post office less than two kilometers from the hospital.
Police were communicating with the suspect by phone.
One of the women walked out about five hours after the incident began. About two hours later, the other hostage escaped.
Violent crime, especially incidents involving guns, is rare in Japan.
There were just nine shooting incidents last year, including the killing of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by a man with a homemade gun at a campaign rally in July.
Source: NHK World
一名86歲槍手被捕，兩名被劫持的女子安然無恙
東京：據媒體報道，週二，一名涉嫌在日本東京北部埼玉縣一家郵局劫持兩名婦女的男子隨後被捕。
根據當局的初步報告，下午，一名似乎攜帶武器的男子在首都北部瓦拉比市劫持了兩名婦女作為人質。
晚上 10 點左右，嫌疑人將自己鎖在大樓內大約八小時後，警方被部署到大樓。
這名 86 歲的男子被捕，當局後來證實兩名女子沒有受傷。
他們相信這名 86 歲的男子參與了附近一家醫院早些時候發生的槍擊事件，造成兩人受傷。
槍擊事件發生在下午 1 點後不久。 週二在戶田市的一家醫院。 警方稱，顯然有人從街上向醫院開槍。
他們說一名醫生和一名病人受傷，沒有生命危險。 嫌犯隨後逃離現場，並將自己封鎖在距離醫院不到兩公里的一個郵局內。
警方正在透過電話與嫌疑人聯繫。
事件發生大約五個小時後，其中一名婦女走出去。 大約兩個小時後，另一個名人質逃脫。
暴力犯罪，特別是涉及槍枝的犯罪事件在日本很少見。
去年僅發生九起槍擊事件，包括前首相安倍晉三在 7 月的競選集會上被一名男子用自製槍殺害。
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