Two people have died following a knife attack inside the flagship Pokémon Center in Tokyo on the evening of 26 March. A man wielding two knives fatally stabbed a female retail worker before turning the weapons on himself at the Mega Tokyo location, situated in the Higashi-ikebukuro district.
The incident began at 7.15pm within the Sunshine City complex. Police were quickly inundated with emergency calls to 110, the Japanese national dispatch number, following reports of an active stabbing. Emergency responders discovered the female worker, who was in her 20s, and the man lying unconscious on the shop floor. They were transported to a medical facility, but Japanese media report both individuals were sadly declared dead by the time they reached the hospital.
