A man attacked his former girlfriend and her father with a hammer at their home in Osaka on Wednesday night.
According to police, the 41-year-old woman called 110 at 11:40 p.m. to report that her ex-boyfriend had barged into her 12th-floor apartment in Tsurumi Ward and hit her and her 64-year-old father with a hammer.
The woman told police that her father answered the door and was struck several times by the man who then hit her before fleeing, NTV reported. The man tried to drag the woman down the stairwell but another resident scared him away.
The woman sustained minor injuries, but her father underwent an operation on Thursday morning, police said.
NTV quoted police as saying that the woman had broken up with the man, who in his 40s, two weeks ago and that he had been following her in his car as well as emailing and calling her.
Police have issued an arrest warrant for the man on a charge of attempted murder.
© Japan Today
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Disillusioned
Another scorned ex-lover going nuts! Is it any surprise that women break up with gear losers. I'm sure he was just as possessive and overruling during the relationship. Find him and lock him up before he has another go at her!
khulifi
This week is ex-girlfriend and ex-husband week ... Again suspended sentence ...
LaWren
What a total loser. All men who hit women are losers, but this freak takes the biscuit. I hope he goes to prison for a very long time. Men like that are incapable of change.
John Galt
A hammer is/can be a deadly weapon.