{"id":10918,"date":"2023-10-31T13:47:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T13:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/31\/suspected-shooter-barricades-himself-in-japan-post-office-after-2-wounded-at-nearby-hospital-police-say\/"},"modified":"2023-10-31T13:47:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T13:47:58","slug":"suspected-shooter-barricades-himself-in-japan-post-office-after-2-wounded-at-nearby-hospital-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/31\/suspected-shooter-barricades-himself-in-japan-post-office-after-2-wounded-at-nearby-hospital-police-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected shooter barricades himself in Japan post office after 2 wounded at nearby hospital, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      A suspected gunman has barricaded himself in a post office in central Japan after two people were wounded and apparent gunshots heard in a hospital nearby, authorities said Tuesday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The male suspect,\u00a0believed to be between ages 50 and 70, fled the scene and barricaded himself in the Warabi post office, about 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) from the hospital, according to police.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Toda Mayor Fumihito Sugawara confirmed on social media that a man \u201csuspected of carrying a gun\u201d was barricaded in at the post office and warned residents not to go near the area.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Police were alerted to the incident at 1 p.m. local time and an hour later an eyewitness reported hearing what sounded like more gunfire, according to public broadcaster NHK.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Gun violence is extremely rare in Japan. The country has one of the world\u2019s lowest rates of gun crime due to its strict laws on firearms ownership.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Last year, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot dead in Nara city while delivering a campaign speech, in an attack that shocked the nation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      <em>This is a developing story and will be updated. <\/em>  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suspected gunman has barricaded himself in a post office in central Japan after two people were wounded and apparent gunshots heard in a hospital nearby, authorities said Tuesday. The male suspect,\u00a0believed to be between ages 50 and 70, fled the scene and barricaded himself in the Warabi post office, about 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}