Slasher terrorizes Japanese water park

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By Lee Han-soo

A knife-wielding assailant terrorized female visitors at Tokyo Summerland, a water park in Tama, a city in the western part of the Tokyo Metropolis, according to The Japan Times.

There have been eight cases where females swimming in the Cobalt Pool, an artificial wave pool, received slashes from a knife to their lower bodies on Sunday.

The victims whose ages ranged from 18 to 24 were rushed to the hospital. None of their wounds were life-threatening.

The Japanese police have opened an investigation into the incident and have raised the possibility of a hate crime. According to the Tokyo Summerland spokesman, the wave pool was packed at that time, making it hard to identify the culprit.