TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police have captured a gunman who holed up at a post office and have rescued a member of staff who was held hostage, NHK television reported Tuesday.
It followed a more than eight-hour standoff with the man, who entered the post office with a gun in Warabi, north of Tokyo, an hour after a hospital shooting in which two people were wounded in a nearby city of Toda.
Hundreds of police were mobilized and surrounded the building housing the post office in the city of Warabi, reports said. The victims were both conscious and their wounds are not life-threatening, police said. Kyodo News agency said the two were believed to be inside a consultation room on the first floor when they were attacked, and that cracks were found in the window.Later, a man with a handgun was reported to have holed up inside the post office in Warabi, just north of Toda. Police said the two cases are being investigated together because of a possibility that they involve the same suspect.
More than five hours after the standoff began, one member of postal staff came out uninjured. The scene was shown on NHK television as the employee, identified as a woman in her 20s, walked out and was surrounded by police.
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