A Japanese police officer has been stabbed several times in the chest with a kitchen knife and his loaded handgun stolen while on patrol on Sunday morning in the Western city of Suita, near Osaka, Japan.
The attack which police believe may have been pre-meditated, sparked a manhunt, with police using loudspeakers at a railway station to warn people to be on alert.
The stabbing follows an incident last month in which a knife-wielding middle-aged man killed a girl and an adult, injuring another 17 people near Tokyo.
