According to a report by the Japan Broadcasting Association, at around 17:00 p.m. local time on December 14, someone called an emergency call to call the police, claiming that at a shopping center in the Chuo-ku district of Fukuoka, a man stabbed two people with a weapon suspected to be a knife. The report said that after the local police arrived at the scene, they found two wounded, one man and one woman. The two were conscious and taken to the hospital. Police said the assailant was a man about 160 cm tall, dressed in black, wearing glasses, a white mask and a black hat, and carrying a weapon suspected to be a knife. The report said that the man suspected of injuring the person had fled the scene after committing the crime, and the police are hunting him down.

According to a report by the Japan Broadcasting Association, at around 17:00 p.m. local time on December 14, someone called an emergency call to call the police, claiming that at a shopping center in the Chuo-ku district of Fukuoka, a man stabbed two people with a weapon suspected to be a knife. The report said that after the local police arrived at the scene, they found two wounded, one man and one woman. The two were conscious and taken to the hospital. Police said the assailant was a man about 160 cm tall, dressed in black, wearing glasses, a white mask and a black hat, and carrying a weapon suspected to be a knife. The report said that the man suspected of injuring the person had fled the scene after committing the crime, and the police are hunting him down.