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| 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 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. | |
| 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 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. |