Authorities in Japan say one person is dead and two others are injured after a knife attack Wednesday night outside a train station in Nagano.

NAGANO: A man stabbed three people at a train station in central Japan on Wednesday (Jan 22) before fleeing the scene, leaving one person dead, local media reported. The attack occurred around 8.00pm,

Around 8 p.m. on Wednesday, the perpetrator attacked two men and one woman with a knife in front of JR Nagano Station as they waited for a bus. Hiroyoshi Maruyama, a 49-year-old resident of Nagano city, was later confirmed dead at a hospital.

TOKYO -- One man died after a fatal knife attack near Japan's JR Nagano Station at around 8 pm local time on Wednesday, local media reported. Three people, including two men and one woman, were attacked by a suspect wielding a knife-like weapon near the Zenkoji Exit bus rotary of JR Nagano Station, the national broadcaster NHK reported.

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TOKYO, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Three people, including two men and one woman, were attacked by a knife-wielding man at around 8:00 p.m. local time (1100 GMT) near Japan's JR Nagano Station on Wednesday, leaving one in critical condition, local media reported.

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TOKYO: A man stabbed three people at a train station in central Japan on Wednesday (Jan 23) before fleeing the scene, leaving one person dead, local media reported.

A Chinese man Thursday was sentenced to death for killing a man in a knife attack near Shanghai last summer. A Japanese mother and her child were also injured on a Japanese school bus in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.

Authorities in Japan say one person is dead and two others are injured after a knife attack Wednesday night outside a train station in Nagano

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