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Japan park blasts kill one person and injure two Japan park blasts: one person killed and three injured at park in Utsunomiya
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One person has been killed and at least two injured by two near-simultaneous blasts in a Japanese park on Sunday. One person has been killed and at least three injured by two near-simultaneous blasts in a Japanese park on Sunday.
The explosions occurred at a park in Utsunomiya, about 100km north of Tokyo, shortly after 11:30am local time, a fire department spokesman said. It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts.The explosions occurred at a park in Utsunomiya, about 100km north of Tokyo, shortly after 11:30am local time, a fire department spokesman said. It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts.
“One person was found dead,” the fire department spokesman told AFP. Public broadcaster NHK said a body badly damaged in the blast was found at a bicycle parking space for the park. “One person was found dead,” the fire department spokesman told AFP.
“The sex and ages of the three are not known yet,” another local fire department official said, adding one blast hit a car parking lot for the park. Public broadcaster NHK said a body badly damaged in the blast was found at a bicycle parking space for the park.
NHK footage showed a car completely charred, as fire fighters poured water on it. Images broadcast by NHK showed two burnt out cars in a parking lot about 200 metres from the park and a charred broken bench at the edge of the park, where a folk art festival was underway.
A man told NHK that he “smelled gunpowder in the area” after the explosions. A man told the broadcaster that he “smelled gunpowder in the area” after the explosions.
The police said they were investigating whether the incidents at the two sites were linked, but did not give further details.
One of the injured people, a man, was being treated for shrapnel wounds, the broadcaster said. The person killed was also a man, but no other details were available about him or the other two wounded.
Crime rates are low in Japan, and there are no known groups waging any sort of violent campaign against the state.