OSAKA -- A 33-year-old supermarket employee died after being stabbed Tuesday morning during a scuffle near the store in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, police said.

A fellow supermarket employee found Makoto Yano, of Ibaraki, bleeding and unconscious outside the store around 8:15 a.m. He died soon afterward, police said.

The store is located on the first and second floors of the Hankyu Electric Railway Co.'s Minami-Ibaraki Station building.