00:00A female employee at a Pokemon merchandise store was stabbed to death inside a busy Tokyo shopping
00:05complex on Thursday evening. The woman in her 20s were stabbed in the neck, according to Tokyo
00:11police. Local media reports said the attacker, a man also in his 20s, was wielding knives in both
00:16hands and later stabbed himself. Both the woman and the attacker were pronounced dead at a hospital
00:22within an hour. The store was packed with customers, including children and foreign tourists, when the
00:27incident occurred. A witness said she saw two employees in the bathroom washing blood of their
00:33hands. News reports say a person thought to be the woman killed in the attack had made complaints to
00:38police over a stalker. Strict gun laws in Japan mean knife attacks are a more common form of public
00:43violence, with several stabbings on trains and at stations in recent years.
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