A horrific Halloween attack on a train service left 17 injured and forced commuters to squeeze out of windows to flee. - Reuters
TOKYO (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A man was arrested on Saturday (Nov 6) for wielding an awl on a Tokyo subway train, just six days after a horrific Halloween attack on another train service left 17 injured and forced commuters to squeeze out of windows to flee.
Nobody was hurt in the latest incident on board a Tokyo Metro Tozai line train service. But the man in his 50s had allegedly brandished the sharp object in a confrontation with two passengers, whom he claimed had slighted him for not wearing a mask.
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