Stabbing rampage in Tokyo

[Brent]

TOKYO - As many as five people might have died and at least 10 more were wounded after a man went on a knife rampage through Tokyo's popular electronics district on Sunday, a fire department official said, according to Reuters.

The man, identified as a 25-year-old member of one of Japan's yakuza crime syndicates, began shouting and stabbing passers-by in the Akihabara area, NHK television reported, showing footage of several ambulances stopped in the district's crowded streets.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25026870/

[Cyclenall]

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TOKYO - As many as five people might have died and at least 10 more were wounded after a man went on a knife rampage through Tokyo's popular electronics district on Sunday, a fire department official said, according to Reuters.

The man, identified as a 25-year-old member of one of Japan's yakuza crime syndicates, began shouting and stabbing passers-by in the Akihabara area, NHK television reported, showing footage of several ambulances stopped in the district's crowded streets.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25026870/

Why would the fire department cover this? It's like sending in a McDonald's worker to fight a forest fire that is out of control.