Around noon on the 4th, there was information that a man was carrying a bomb containing gunpowder near Seijo Gakuen-mae Station in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, and the explosive ordnance disposal team of the Metropolitan Police Department was dispatched for a while. According to the Metropolitan Police Department, it was not an explosive, so the man was arrested on the spot on suspicion of having a knife and is investigating the details of the situation.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, around noon on the 4th, a young woman complained to the police box near Seijo Gakuen-mae Station in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, that she was being stalked by a strange person.
When a police officer stopped a man in his 30s who was nearby, he was arrested on the spot on suspicion of violating the Firearms and Swords Act because he had two knives with a blade length of about 9 cm.
He also had a thin iron pipe and said, "It's a bomb, it contains gunpowder," so the Metropolitan Police Department examined it, but it was not an explosive.
The man is saying that he 'stabbed a woman and wanted to commit suicide,' so the Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the details of the situation.
The scene was near Seijo Gakuen-mae Station on the Odakyu Line, and there was a temporary commotion as the Metropolitan Police Department's explosive ordnance disposal team was dispatched.