Driver plows through crowds in Tokyo injuring nine

Baku. 1 January. REPORT.AZ/ Nine people were injured — one seriously — when a man rammed his car into pedestrians in the early hours of Tuesday on Harajuku’s famed Takeshita Street in what the driver told police was a terrorist act.

Report informs citing Interfax that the police arrested Kazuhiro Kusakabe, 21, who was driving a rental car with Osaka license plates, on suspicion of attempted murder.

Investigative sources quoted the man as allegedly saying he had perpetrated an act of terrorism “in retaliation for an execution” and “would not make any excuses” for his actions.