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05-18-2007, 01:47 PM
TOKYO (AFP) - A hostage standoff in Japan entered a second day Friday after a former gangster killed a police officer, shot three others and took his companion captive. The assailant, identified by police as 50-year-old Hisato Obayashi, opened fire on his family in central Japan on Thursday in the latest of a spate of gun crimes to shock the famously safe country.
He later shot dead a police officer who had come to the aid of an injured colleague. With media crews filming the scene, police officers in riot gear surrounded his house throughout the night, urging the accused killer to give himself up. Local media said the suspect is a former member of the country's largest crime syndicate Yamaguchi-gumi. Last month, a member of an affiliate of the same gang killed the mayor of Nagasaki in southern Japan.
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He later shot dead a police officer who had come to the aid of an injured colleague. With media crews filming the scene, police officers in riot gear surrounded his house throughout the night, urging the accused killer to give himself up. Local media said the suspect is a former member of the country's largest crime syndicate Yamaguchi-gumi. Last month, a member of an affiliate of the same gang killed the mayor of Nagasaki in southern Japan.
Read more, click here (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070518/wl_afp/japanhostagecrime_07 0518031156;_ylt=AoOa FK6eiteDscch.nlcdGiU sLkA)