INTERNATIONAL: A 24-year-old man dressed in Batman's Joker costume attacked passengers on the world’s busiest rail station, the Shinjuku in Tokyo. 17 people were injured, as many party-goers headed into the city centre for Halloween gatherings. A man believed to be in his 60s was unconscious and in critical condition after being stabbed, while witnesses also said the attacker had spread fluid around the train and started a fire.

"I thought it was a Halloween stunt," one witness told the Yomiuri newspaper, recalling the moment he saw other passengers running in a panic towards his train car. "Then, I saw a man walking this way, slowly waving a long knife." There was blood on the knife, he said.

Scenes of the fire and people running were released in different social media. Local media reported later that the suspect told authorities he "wanted to kill people so he could be sentenced to death". The suspected attacker was arrested by Police on the spot.