A 28-year-old man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of attempted murder after he allegedly pushed a woman and a teen female from behind on a train platform in Osaka, causing the woman to fall onto the tracks where she narrowly escaped being hit by a train.
According to the police, Akihiro Hai, an unemployed man from Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, has admitted to "forcefully touching" the 63-year-old woman who fell onto the tracks at JR Shin-Imamiya Station in Naniwa Ward on Sunday afternoon, but said he did not intend to kill her.
He denied pushing the female 18-year-old high school student, the police said.