Victim and suspected assailant died in a Tokyo knife attack

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In Tokyo, a knife attack resulted in the death of a female employee at a Pokemon merchandise shop. The suspected assailant also died after stabbing himself.

The victim was stabbed to death in Tokyo's commercial district on Thursday, shocking shoppers during children's spring break season in Japan.

The woman, in her 20s, was stabbed in her neck in the evening in a commercial complex by a man also in his 20s, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said. Both were pronounced dead at a hospital within an hour, police said.

Broadcaster TV Asahi said the woman was a staff member of the Pokemon Centre store in the building and the perpetrator was wielding knives in both hands.

The motive remains unclear, local media reported.

Videos posted on social media showed ambulances converged on the building, located just a few hundred meters away from the Ikebukuro terminal, one of the busiest train stations in Tokyo.