Fire set by rider on Japanese bullet train quickly put out

TOKYO — A rider connected a Japanese super-express bid started a occurrence connected the level that was rapidly enactment retired by chap passengers Monday greeting and didn’t origin injuries, constabulary said. The fishy allegedly wanted to imitate an onslaught connected Tokyo commuter bid a week agone that caused respective injuries.

The fishy sprinkled liquid connected the floor, lit a portion of insubstantial with his lighter and dropped it connected the the aisle level adjacent to his spot arsenic the Kyushu Shinkansen “bullet” bid was traveling from the Kumamoto presumption to the Shin-Yatsushiro presumption successful confederate Japan, according to Kumamoto prefectural constabulary authoritative Tsuneo Kitada.

The occurrence caused a tiny pain connected the level arsenic passengers rapidly enactment it out, portion the bid conductor alerted police. They jumped onto the bid arsenic soon arsenic it stopped astatine the adjacent station. The suspect, who was softly seated and did not resist, was arrested connected suspicion of attempted arson, Kitada said.

Police said Kiyoshi Miyake, 69 and from Fukuoka, told them helium tried to imitate an onslaught connected Oct. 31, erstwhile a antheral similar the Joker comic villain acceptable occurrence connected a Tokyo commuter bid car aft knifing a passenger. Sixteen different radical were injured portion escaping, mostly from inhaling fume from the fire.

Recent cases connected the bid person prompted reappraisal of exigency procedures and information of Japanese bid services.

In August, the time earlier the Tokyo Olympics closing ceremony, a antheral stabbed 10 passengers connected a Tokyo commuter bid successful a random burst of violence.