Overview
- Emergency services said an initial call came at about 4:30 p.m. local time reporting multiple stabbings and the use of a spray.
- Authorities reported 14 people required emergency care, with at least six taken to hospitals and NHK noting all victims were conscious.
- Seventeen emergency vehicles, including 11 ambulances, were deployed to the factory in central Japan’s Shizuoka prefecture.
- Japanese media, including NHK, reported that a man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
- Some local outlets later reported the injury toll rose to 15 and suggested the liquid might be bleach, but those details have not been officially confirmed.