Woman in critical condition after being stabbed at supermarket; husband arrested

A woman in her 50s is in a critical condition in hospital after she was stabbed in a supermarket in Kiyose, Tokyo, on Sunday morning. Police said her husband has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. His wife was in a state of cardiac arrest when taken to hospital.

The incident occurred just before 11 a.m. at the Seiyu Kiyose store in front of Kiyose Station on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line, NHK reported.



A customer on the third floor of the store called 110 and said a woman had been stabbed. Police rushed to the store and found the woman unconscious, bleeding from stab wounds to her chest and right arm. A bloodstained knife was on the floor and her husband was standing nearby.

Police said the man has admitted stabbing his wife and quoted him as saying he and his wife had been having a financial dispute..