Police on Friday combed a fishery company in Hiroshima Prefecture where a 30-year-old Chinese trainee allegedly murdered a man and a woman and wounded six others.
The police arrested the suspect, Chen Shuangxi, a trainee working under a state-authorized program for foreigners in the island city of Etajima in the Seto Island Sea, at the scene of the attack. The slaying took place around 4:30 p.m. Thursday at the firm Kawaguchi Suisan.
The two fatalities were company President Nobuyuki Kawaguchi, 55, and Masako Hashishita, 68, an employee, the police said. One of the six victims wounded is in a coma.