A police team investigates an apartment in Fukuoka's Hakata Ward where people were stabbed on the morning of June 22, 2021. (Mainichi/Noriko Tokuno)

       FUKUOKA -- A man in his 20s was taken into police custody on the morning of June 22 in this southwest Japan city after an alleged stabbing spree targeting his family members.

       A witness called police at around 7:25 a.m., saying that people "had been stabbed in what appeared to be a family feud" at an apartment complex in Fukuoka's Hakata Ward. An investigative source said a man in his 20s was in police custody.

       According to Fukuoka Prefectural Police's Hakata Police Station, at least five people aged somewhere between 10 and 69 were injured in the stabbing and they are all relatives of the man in custody. Of those hurt, a man in his 30s has reportedly been seriously injured after being stabbed in the head and right wrist.

       The man in police custody suffered injuries to both of his arms. Police plan to question him after he receives treatment.

       A woman in her 30s living nearby said, "I heard screaming, and saw a man in a black shirt with blood dripping from his arms pulling on a woman's hair. I was so scared I couldn't go outside."

       (Japanese original by Rokuhei Sato and Ken Nakazato, Kyushu News Department)

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