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'Man with knife holds five people hostage in Japan bank'

By REUTERS

NOVEMBER 22, 2012 10:42

TOKYO - A man with a knife demanding that Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's government resign was holding five people hostage on Thursday in a small bank, media reported.

A spokesman at the Toyokawa Shinkin Bank in Aichi prefecture in central Japan confirmed that a number of people were being held hostage. He could not give further details.

The man with a knife, who entered the bank in the early afternoon, had demanded food, drink and a megaphone. Police were trying to persuade him to give up, public broadcaster NHK said.

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