Police reportedly capture gunman who held staff member hostage in a Japanese post office for 8 hours

By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Associated Press

TOKYO (AP) — NHK television says Japanese police have captured a gunman who holed up at a post office and have rescued a member of staff who was held hostage. It followed a more than eight-hour standoff with the man, who entered the post office with a gun in Warabi, north of Tokyo, on Tuesday, an hour after a hospital shooting in which two people were wounded in the nearby city of Toda. Police said they were investigating the two cases together because of a possibility they are related. They are also looking into a fire that broke out in a building near the hospital around the time of the shooting.