At roughly 5:25 a.m. Sunday, emergency companies acquired a name from a girl in her 60s from the town of Asahi, Chiba Prefecture, stating {that a} younger man had damaged into her house by the home windows and stabbed her husband within the again.
The 69-year-old sufferer was taken to hospital. Authorities have confirmed that his accidents aren’t life-threatening.
Three hours earlier, a 66-year-old man within the metropolis of Kashiwa, additionally in Chiba Prefecture, sustained minor accidents after reportedly being assaulted by a house intruder.
Police are treating each incidents as armed robberies and are analyzing potential hyperlinks between the 2 circumstances. The attackers in each circumstances are at giant.
Police say that the sufferer within the Asahi theft was stabbed after he found the intruder rummaging by his belongings.
The suspect is described as being roughly 180 centimeters tall, with brown hair. He was reportedly carrying black garments on the time of the incident.
In the Kashiwa incident, the sufferer known as authorities round 2.30 a.m., stating that an intruder had strangled him and hit him a number of occasions within the face.
According to the sufferer, the assault occurred after he heard noises upstairs and went to research, solely to find two intruders, considered one of whom wore black clothes and a black masks.
Translated by The Japan Times