TOKYO, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- A convenience store employee died after a man stabbed him and two other co-workers in Sapporo in the northernmost Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido on Sunday, local media reported.
The incident happened around 6:50 a.m. local time when the man armed with what appeared to be a kitchen knife started attacking people at a Seicomart store in Sapporo's Kita Ward, Kyodo News said.
All three store employees were taken to a hospital with stab wounds, with police arresting the assailant at the scene, the report said.
The employee in his 40s was later confirmed dead. The two other workers are a man in his 60s and a woman in her 50s, it added.
The police said they arrested Hirotaka Miyanishi, 43, an unemployed man living in the same ward, who has admitted to stabbing all three. ■
