Around 20 people were injured in Japan after a man sprayed an unidentified substance into the Ginza Six luxury shopping mall in Tokyo, AFP reported on Monday.
At least two people on stretchers were put in an ambulance after the attack, an AFP reporter witnessed, although the public NHK broadcaster reported that the injuries appeared to generally be light.
“By the time I arrived, the commotion had already started, and I thought there might have been a small fire or something,” a 70-year-old woman who was at the mall told NHK.
She had approached an ATM on the ground floor, where the man was said to have sprayed the substance, when she felt her throat start “stinging and hurting,” describing it as feeling “scratchy, almost numb.”
Police investigating mall spraying incident
The road in front of the mall was blocked off following the incident, although shoppers continued to enter and exit the mall using side entrances.
A firefighter at the scene said that police are investigating the incident.
