Police, who are interrogating a 20-year-old college student from Saitama Prefecture on suspicion of stabbing to death a 21-year-old woman in the city of Iruma, in the same prefecture, revealed Friday that the suspect said that he "just wanted to kill anyone."

Yusuke Numata, 20, from the city of Saitama, was arrested on murder charges Thursday after he turned himself in to the police earlier in the day and confessed to having killed a woman in Iruma.

"I bought the knife just before (the assault)," he was quoted by an investigator as saying.