Police in Japan capture gunman after 8-hour hostage drama at post office
By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — Police in Japan say they have ended an eight-hour standoff with a gunman at a post office by capturing the suspect. They stormed the building after two hostages there were freed safely. The man had entered the post office with a gun in Warabi, north of Tokyo, about an hour after a shooting at a hospital in which two people were wounded in the nearby city of Toda. Police say 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.
