Three dead in Tokyo family stabbing: police

AFP
Saturday, March 29, 2008

TOKYO -- A 42-year-old Japanese man stabbed his parents and his wife to death, and also seriously in

jured his two sons during a family dispute in a quiet Tokyo neighbourhood. The man, identified by local media as Masao Enari, was also wounded in the chest and abdomen after attempting suicide in the overnight attack.

"The three were rushed to hospital but confirmed dead there," a police spokeswoman said, adding the victims were yet to be identified. But NHK and private networks said the dead were Enari's 37-year-old wife, Nobuko, his father Mitsuo, 74, and mother Toshiko, 70.

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Three dead in Tokyo family stabbing: police

AFPSaturday, March 29, 2008

AFP
Saturday, March 29, 2008