Japan has some of the strictest gun control laws in the world and lowest rates of gun violence 02:36. Tokyo — Japanese police captured a gunman Tuesday who had holed up inside a post office with ...

Japanese police arrested an 86-year-old suspected gunman Tuesday who had barricaded himself in a post office with two hostages after injuring two people at a hospital earlier in the day.

Instead, the “Missing Post Office” is a repository for 60,000-plus pieces of mail: letters, birthday cards and New Year’s greetings sent from all over Japan to those with no forwarding address.

Police arrested the armed suspect at a post office north of Tokyo after two hostages were freed safely in an attack that could be related to an earlier shooting at a hospital. IE 11 is not supported.

Japanese police arrested an 86-year-old suspected gunman Tuesday who had barricaded himself in a post office with two hostages after injuring two people at a hospital earlier in the day.