A gunman holed up at a Japanese post office may be linked to an earlier shooting at a hospital

By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Associated Press

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police have surrounded a post office where a man with a gun is holed up and they say the case may be linked to an earlier shooting at a hospital. One post office staff member is still believed to be held inside the building in the city of Warabi. Earlier, two people were wounded at the hospital in the nearby city of Toda, north of the Japanese capital, Tokyo. Saitama Prefectural Police said they are 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.