Overview
- Osaka Prefectural Police arrested a 45-year-old Neyagawa man on suspicion of attempted murder after a woman was stabbed on a street in Sakaihashi-cho around 5:40 p.m. on March 11.
- The victim, a 52-year-old woman, was stabbed in the abdomen with what police described as a survival knife and is hospitalized with consciousness and no life-threatening injuries reported.
- A passerby in his 40s restrained the suspect and handed him to responding officers, and a female passerby reported the attack to police.
- An emergency responder returning from another call reported seeing a man and woman struggling while holding knives, and investigators are clarifying the sequence of events.
- Police say the victim and suspect know each other, and the suspect told officers he stabbed her but denied intent to kill as detectives assess his statements and motive.