Another woman and two police officers were earlier confirmed dead in the attack.
Police told AFP that the 31-year-old suspect had been detained at about 4:30 am , and later confirmed he had been formally arrested on suspicion of murder using a suspected hunting rifle.
“We pray for the souls of the deceased and express our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families,” top government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters. The officers were inside a patrol car and the attacker placed the weapon against a window of the vehicle and fired twice, NHK reported.Local media said the man then barricaded himself inside his father’s home, where he remained most of the night, with occasional gunshots heard.
Japan was left reeling in July last year when former prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot dead in broad daylight with an apparently homemade gun.
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