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       TOKYO -- A train carrying people home suddenly transformed into a bloody crime scene on the night of Aug. 6 as a knife-wielding man attacked people, leaving 10 injured, some seriously.

       Passengers are seen immediately after evacuating from the train where the knife attack occurred, in this image taken on Aug. 6, provided by a passenger.

       Yusuke Tsushima, 36, who was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder by officers at the Metropolitan Police Department on Aug. 7, is accused of wielding a knife and injuring passengers and others on an Odakyu Odawara Line train near Soshigaya-Okura Station on the night of Aug. 6. Inside the car, a confused, blood-soaked victim shouted for others to run while some other passengers were rendered speechless in shock.

       The train where the incident occurred made an emergency stop just ahead of Soshigaya-Okura Station. The Mainichi Shimbun arrived on the scene soon after the attack.

       Entry to the station's ticket gate area where evacuated passengers gathered was limited, and police officers were seen hurrying back and forth. Beside them, a person who appeared to have been injured was seen being loaded onto a stretcher and taken away by paramedics.

       One passenger in his 20s first realized something was happening when he heard somebody burst in from the preceding car while saying, "There's someone waving a knife around." He looked ahead, and saw a man in the center of the car two carriages away swinging something around, surrounded by multiple people doubled up or collapsed. Although he couldn't see what the individual was holding, the witness said, "It looked like his hand was making contact with many people. I heard people cry out in a way that can't be described in words."

       The train was so crowded at the time that almost all seats were occupied. A woman with a blood-covered shirt who escaped the carriage further up apparently fled toward the rear of the train while in a state of distress, saying: "I'm not hurt but please help, please." The man who witnessed the attack reflected: "I was thinking, what if that seemingly crazed guy had come toward us with the knife. It was scary."

       A 55-year-old company employee riding the fourth car from the back reported that at just past 8:30 p.m., many passengers suddenly rushed in from the car in front. Among them was a woman not wearing shoes whose arms and legs were covered in blood, and multiple injured people.

       A man who had been riding a car separate to the one where the attack took place reported seeing a passenger who appeared to have been stabbed. "A woman probably in her 20s came in; she looked like she'd been stabbed in the side. Someone who appeared to be a nurse just happened to be there. They lay her down on one of the seats, and got towels from other passengers to stop the bleeding," he said.

       Another company employee aged 45 said he called out to someone covered in blood who was running away. When he asked if they were OK, they apparently told him: "Someone near me was stabbed, I'm covered in blood." Amid the commotion, the train doors opened, and four to five exhausted-looking men received treatment from paramedics.

       A man in his 40s riding in a separate car said, "People who had been injured ran in, and before I realized it there was blood on my clothes, too." A 20-year-old university student from the Tokyo suburban city of Machida said she learned about the incident when she heard people saying there was a "crazed man" and that people should "run." "Without knowing what happened, the train car went into panic, and everyone desperately tried to escape. I thought I would be killed," she said.

       The alleged attacker, Yusuke Tsushima, was detained at a convenience store in Tokyo's Suginami Ward on the night of Aug. 6. A self-employed man in his 30s who was nearby said patrol cars began gathering at around 10 p.m.

       The detained man was described as being of "healthy build, and casual-looking with brown pants and a black T-shirt." The suspect was seen getting into an undercover police vehicle, with police restraining him to sit in the back of the car.

       A 14-year-old second year junior high school student said, "He wasn't agitated; it was like he was obeying the police officers' orders. I heard the suspect was on the loose, so I was worried."

       (Japanese original by Taisuke Shimabukuro, Tama Bureau, and Takuya Suzuki, Richi Tanaka and Maki Kihara, Tokyo City News Department)

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