8 Hurt in Tokyo New Year's Day Car Attack

VOA News
1 January 2019 (2:02AM)

At least eight people were injured when a man deliberately drove his car into a crowded Tokyo street filled with people who had gathered for the city's New Year's festivities.

The incident happened shortly after midnight Tuesday on Takeshita Street in the city's popular Harajuku fashion district near the Meiji Shrine.

Police took a man in his 20s into custody and charged him with suspicion of attempted murder.