OSAKA (Kyodo) An Osaka city employee gunned down three people in a bar Tuesday evening in Habikino, Osaka Prefecture, before committing suicide, police said.
The shooter was identified as Yasuhisa Sugiura, 49. The three victims in the 8 p.m. carnage included Tatsuya Fukui, 23, a part-time employee at the bar, and Yoshiko Tanaka, 66, Sugiura’s mother-in-law, the police said.
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