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Man shoots children, takes woman hostage May 18, 2007 11:21am Article from: Agence France-Presse A MAN has killed a police officer and shot three others, including his two children, in central Japan before taking a hostage believed to be his wife. Police identified the attacker as former gangster Hisato Obayashi, 50, who opened fire in a residential area, Kyodo news agency said. He is a former member of the country's largest crime syndicate Yamaguchi-gumi, and the shootings are the latest in a recent spate of gun crimes in Japan. A riot police officer was severely injured after being shot in the neck, the report said, and was forced to lie where he fell for up to three hours as Obayashi threatened to fire more shots. He later died in hospital. Another police officer was also shot. Obayashi's son and daughter were taken to hospital with bullet wounds, Jiji Press reported. Kyodo said their injuries were not thought to be life-threatening. "The suspect then took a woman hostage. It is still unknown if the woman was also wounded,'' said a police spokesman in Kagakute, some 270 kilometres west of Tokyo. Local media said the woman was his wife. Japan has one of the world's lowest crime rates, but has recently seen a series of shootings that have shocked the public. Exactly a month ago, a mobster shot dead the mayor of Nagasaki after an apparent dispute over a traffic accident. . <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11648958/grpspId=1705447214/msgI d=33043/stime=1179488064/nc1=3848616/nc2=3848530/nc3=3848642> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
