Robbery Incident at Tobacco Store in Tokyo’s Edogawa Ward – Latest News and Updates

2023-11-24 22:00:40

At around 6:50 p.m. on the 24th, the Metropolitan Police Department received a report of a “robber” coming from a tobacco store in Higashikomatsugawa, Edogawa Ward, Tokyo.

According to the Metropolitan Police Department, the store owner, a man in his 80s, was working alone in a warehouse at the back of the store when a man suddenly barged in with what appeared to be a knife.

When his daughter, a man in his 70s, returned to the store and found a man being pushed to the ground in a warehouse, she called out to him, saying, “Who are you?” The man choked her and threatened to “give me money.” The suspect stole approximately 50,000 yen in cash and ran away.

The man was punched in the face and suffered minor injuries and was taken to the hospital, but his daughter was not injured.

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▽He is around 70 years old.
▽Height is regarding 1 meter 70 cm,
▽With a thin build and white hair,
▽The cap and upper and lower work clothes he was wearing were both blue, so the Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the whereregardings of the man who ran away as a robbery-injury incident.

The scene is in a residential area regarding 1 km south of Edogawa Ward Office.

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