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Police have arrested a 47-year-old man on arson and attempted murder charges after he attempted to set a hospital on fire in Hachioji, Tokyo, by throwing Molotov cocktails against walls inside the building.
According to police, the suspect, identified as Shigeyuki Soga, went to the Tokai University Hospital just after noon on Nov 22 and began throwing PET bottles filled with an inflammable liquid at the walls, TBS reported. Soga began his rampage on the fourth floor and made his way to the eighth before stopping.
About 400 patients and staff were evacuated from the hospital.
Soga turned himself in at a police station at Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, on Wednesday. Police said he had admitted to the charges.
Media reported that on the morning of the fire, Soga had visited the hospital's plastic surgery department and that he complained about the hospital many times.
© Japan Today
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Gengar
Psychopath.
Dennis Bauer
That's a very mature way to deal with your grievances
khulifi
Very sick .... BUT I agree with his frustration , once at midnight suddenly I had a very strong back pain that I could not move ( due to kidney stone ) my wife drove me at midnight to emergency room of a government hospital ( the biggest in town ) .... they did not accept me and doctors and nurses just looking at me laying on the reception chair suffering from pain ... then one nurse told my wife to go to a private clinic that open at that time.
A.N. Other
What an idiot.
Anyone with an ounce of common sense knows that PET bottles don't shatter.
nandakandamanda
Er, he had been there concerning facial plastic surgery, and had some concrete grievances with the hospital, according to other news sources, such as they made him wait in line for the shower, and he didn't like the attitude of some of the staff. The hospital even had two letters of complaint from him.
Khulifi, I had a very different experience, but I really do sympathize with you. I had a blocked bowel and couldn't stand the pain. Without telling the wife, as I didn't want to alarm her, I drove to the National Hospital near here at midnight on a Saturday and there were emergency medical staff on duty, and other patients waiting for treatment. The hospital did everything necessary and were even able to x-ray, and sell me prescription drugs. Almost never been so thankful.
Moderator
Back on topic please.
CrazyJoe
A PET molotov cocktail? Dummy.
khulifi
nandakandamanda , Glad that you got some help during emergency , probably you are white skin from the other side of the Pacific so they were scared and treated you , where as I looks like Asian so in their opinion lower grade so they do not care