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At least 15 people were injured this Friday in amass stabbing happened in afactory in the Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka, southwest of Tokyo, according to the Japanese public broadcaster NHK, which cites sources from the local Fire Department.
Most of the injured were taken to the hospital, all in a conscious state, according to the network.
Meanwhile, police arrested a man at the scene suspected of attacking the victims with a knife.
According to the Japanese newspaper Asahi, authorities think the man is a worker in his 30s who entered the factory armed with a survival knife and a gas mask.
According to NHK, the man stabbed at least eight people in the factory and sprayed some type of liquid on six otherswithout specifying which one.
According to local authorities, emergency services received a call around 4:30 p.m. local time (07:30 GMT) alerting that several people had been stabbed in a rubber factory in the town of Mishima, in Shizuoka prefecture.
Authorities are still investigating the details of the incident and have cordoned off the area.