A man walks with a car on the crowd and injures nine people in Tokyo

K Azuhiro Kusakabe, 21, launched a vehicle "intended to kill" people in Takeshita Street in the Harajuku neighborhood at midnight to ten, he said

According to NHK television channel, Kusakabe told the police that he was acting as a form of "retaliation against the death penalty" without giving further details.

Television footage showed the car, a small model aboard which the young man traveled from Osaka, west of Japan, with the front crushed and the windshield broken. According to local media, a can of kerosene could have been found inside the car.

A student was seriously injured and was transported to the hospital where he was operated, police spokesman said, adding that Kazuhiro

According to Japanese newspapers, Kusakabe struck nine people in Takeshita Street, then closed to traffic and filled with people gathered to celebrate the arrival of the New Year. Kusakabe had been arrested for attempted homicide. 19659003] Takeshita Street is considered the center of youth and fashion in Japan, attracting tens of thousands of tourists every day.

According to early indications, there are no strangers among the wounded.