Osaka: Three people were injured in a knife attack on Sunday on a train at a station near Kansai International Airport in the western Japan city of Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture.

A knife-wielding man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder.

Police received an emergency call reporting the incident at Rinku-town Station at around 10:25 a.m.

According to fire authorities, the three injured were two men in their 70s and 20s and a train conductor in his 20s of West Japan Railway Co., or JR West. Their injuries were not life-threatening.

The suspect, Kazuya Shimizu, 37, whose occupation and address are unknown, admitted to stabbing passengers on a JR train, informed sources said.

Following the incident, JR West and Nankai Electric Railway Corp. temporarily suspended train service around the station.

JIJI Press