The Yomiuri Shimbun
A man was arrested on suspicion of assault after allegedly throwing a kitchen knife at a 15-year-old girl and her friend from his apartment building in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on Sunday evening, the police said.
The third-year middle school student of the city was walking along the road with her male companion when the knife hit her left hand, cutting her little finger, according to officers from Amagasaki Police Station.
Naoyuki Ide, 38, reportedly threw the knife from a second-floor corridor of the roadside building at about 9:20 p.m.
(Jan. 9, 2007)