Tragedy During Tokyo Eviction: Guarantee Company Employee Killed, Officer Seriously Injured in Knife Attack
In an apartment in Suginami Ward, Tokyo, on the morning of the 15th, a male resident who was being ordered to vacate during a compulsory eviction due to rent arrears attacked court officials and others with a knife, resulting in the death of one male employee of a guarantee company and serious injury to one enforcement officer. The incident occurred at an apartment in Izumi 2-chome, Suginami Ward. When a court enforcement officer and an employee of a guarantee company visited the scene for the compulsory eviction from the apartment due to unpaid rent, the resident, 40-year-old Hiroshi Yamamoto, ignited a gas cylinder from a portable stove, causing an explosion. He then stabbed two individuals with a kitchen knife. As a result of this attack, a man in his 60s, an employee of the guarantee company, was stabbed in the back and was in critical condition, unconscious, but was later confirmed dead at the hospital he was transported to. The accompanying enforcement officer was also stabbed an...