{"id":3303,"date":"2016-10-23T17:05:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T17:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2016-10-23T17:05:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T17:05:13","slug":"1-killed-in-japan-park-blasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2016\/10\/23\/1-killed-in-japan-park-blasts\/","title":{"rendered":"1 killed in Japan park blasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A second explosion, separate from the blast that killed the former Self Defence Force member, caused a fire in a nearby parking lot, while the man&#8217;s home 8 km (5 miles) from the park burnt to the ground, the report said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-quote fb_iframe_widget\">The police in the city, which is about 100 km (62 miles)north of Tokyo, said they had discovered a suicide note written by the man and were investigating the three incidents, but did not give further details.<\/div>\n<p>Images broadcast by NHK showed two burnt out cars, one of which belonged to the dead man, about 200 meters (650 feet) from the park and a charred broken bench at the edge of the park, where a folk art festival was underway.<\/p>\n<div class=\"customInline-image-w300\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/d30fl32nd2baj9.cloudfront.net\/media\/2016\/10\/23\/japan-blasts-2.jpg\/ALTERNATES\/w300\/Japan+blasts+2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"customInline-image-w300\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/d30fl32nd2baj9.cloudfront.net\/media\/2016\/10\/23\/japan-blasts-3.jpg\/ALTERNATES\/w300\/Japan+blasts+3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The explosion in the park injured two men aged 64 and 58, who were being treated for shrapnel wounds. The third victim was a 14 year-old school boy, NHK said.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told the broadcaster they heard a series of loud explosions.<\/p>\n<p>Suicide rates have declined in Japan in recent years, but remain among the highest in the world, with around 30,000 people a year taking their own lives. Experts have pointed to the financial stress of surviving on small pensions for pushing some retired people to end their lives.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, a 71 year-old man set himself on fire on a bullet train in an incident that also claimed the life of a 52 year-old woman travelling in the same carriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second explosion, separate from the blast that killed the former Self Defence Force member, caused a fire in a nearby parking lot, while the man&rsquo;s home 8 km (5 miles) from the park burnt to the ground, the report said. The police in the city, which is about 100 km (62 miles)north of Tokyo, said they had discovered a suicide note written by the man and were investigating the three incidents, but did not give further details. Images broadcast by NHK showed two burnt out cars, one of which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3305,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions\/3305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}