Around 20 injured after spraying incident in Tokyo mall
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TOKYO: Around 20 people were injured at a luxury shopping complex in central Tokyo on Monday (May 25) after a man sprayed a substance inside, police and fire department officials said.
Tokyo police spokesman Yusuke Koide told AFP that a man sprayed a substance at an ATM on the ground floor of the building, while a local fire department official said "around 20 people were injured" after a report of a "smell".
Roads around the building in the shopping district of Ginza, where the mall is located, were blocked off following the incident, and fire trucks lined the street.
An AFP reporter at the scene saw two people on stretchers being put into an ambulance, while firefighters and officials dressed in hazmat suits brought people from the mall into specialised trucks to examine them.
Public broadcaster NHK said the injuries appeared to be light.
Police are investigating the cause, a fire department officer at the scene said.
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