A 66-year-old newspaper deliveryman was attacked by a man who stabbed him at east 10 times with an ice pick in Hiroshima on Wednesday morning. The victim sustained serious injuries but is in a stable condition, police said.
According to police, the attack occurred at around 3 a.m. in Naka Ward. Fuji TV reported that the deliveryman was riding his bicycle, when a man came up to him and hit him on the head with a blunt object, knocking him off his bike. The assailant then stabbed him repeatedly in the chest with an ice pick.
The victim got up and was found collapsed about 700 meters away by a passerby, police said. He told police he did not know his assailant.
Police said they are examining street surveillance camera footage to try and identify the attacker.
© Japan Today
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Giveme_abreak
What is going on??
misunderstood
Knives kills
Monozuki
The deliveryman may have been confused as to why he was stabbed by a complete stranger. Luckily, he has narrowly escaped death anyway. The chances were that the ice pick had missed his vital organs. Hope he will recover as soon as possible.
Serrano
They walk among us.
keika1628
Armchair detective here: maybe do a crawl of the snack bars in the area and check for a missing icepick
Supersmashed
wow... icepicks are in style again. Damn shame. Hope he recovers fully.