A police chief, Yukao Seino (33) was stabbed by a young man who visited the police box at the Higashi Sendai police station in Miyagi prefectural police Sendai Tobu 2-chome, Sendai-shi, Miyagino-ku, Sunday 19, about 1 hour later Death was confirmed. Another male policing officer shot three shots to the man and the man died. The police are investigating on charges of attempted murder.

According to the prefectural police, the man visited the police station saying "I picked up the lost item." At the time there were two police officers, Chief Seikino and Chief Investigator, who corresponded initially. When the police chief dropped to the back room, I heard a shouting voice and a fighting voice, so I went back and a man stood up and came heading with a knife. The inspector warned, but because the man did not stop, he shot three shots, he said. The man also had something like a sub machine gun, but he says he does not know whether he is a model gun or genuine. It is said that the gun of Seiichi Seiji was not robbed.

A man who runs a cake store nearby (71) said, "When I was drowsy, I heard a loud noise with three shoots, pan, pan, bread, I thought that it was a safe place because of a police box. I was surprised that it would happen.

An unemployed male in the neighborhood (80) found before 5 am that many police cars were gathered. "I was surprised to hear that two people had died," to the policeman, "I have been told not to leave home from the apartment now, lock it out" and did not tell me anything. " A woman in her 60s said, "I thought that the police box was safe nearby, but I am afraid of having such a thing."

The scene is a residential area about 200 meters northwest from Higashi Sendai Station on the JR Tohoku Line. Sendai City Higashi Sendai Junior High School is adjacent.

Main cases that police officers were attacked

May 1989 Police officers in charge of police officers at Nerima bridge in Nerima Ward in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, are stabbed by a man who tried to take a handgun by two police officers on duty

February 1992 Police Department Higashimurayama officer was stabbed in police box and robbed of handgun

June 2000 Aomori Prefectural Police Department of Mutsu stabbed by a man who asked his duties and died, robbed of a handgun

March 2007 Married by Ibaraki Prefectural Police Kasama station police officers are cut off with a knife to the man who asked their duties

Chief police chief of Chiba prefectural police Matsudo station of the Chiba Prefectural Police Department June 10, a man was robbed of a handgun while listening to the circumstances, the left foot was shot, serious injury

May 14, Anjo officers who were robbed of a handgun by a man who tried to listen to circumstances within the complex of Aichi prefecture Chiryu shot a right arm

In January 16, at a municipal house in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Uraga officer was robbed of a handgun by a man, shot the right and right arms, seriously injured

October 17, at the commercial facility in Onojo city, Fukuoka prefecture, Kasuga officials are strangled to a man and deprived of handguns

In April 18, at the Kawase Ekimae police station in Hikone-shi, Shiga Prefecture, the chief police officer was shot by a handgun for his subordinate's police died

June A police officer was stabbed in a police box at Toyama City, robbed of a handgun, a security guard died at a nearby primary school