but tightest controls won't stop killings:
Russian man killed in shooting at Japanese office building
TOKYO
(June 15, 2001 08:22 a.m. EDT ) - A Russian man was killed and two unidentified women were wounded Thursday night in a shooting in northern Japan, police said Friday.
The three victims were shot in an office building in Wakkanai on the northern island of Hokkaido, said Masaru Takeda, a local police spokesman.
Mikhaylenko Alexandre, 37, a Russian citizen who lived in Wakkanai, was found dead in a restroom, Takeda said.
The two wounded women, one shot in the face and the other in the hip, were taken to a nearby hospital where they were in stable condition after surgery, Takeda said. The women remained unconscious and had not yet been questioned by police, he said.
Police were searching for a man who fled the office, but it was unclear what motivated the attack, Takeda said.
Wakkanai, a port city of 50,000 people on the northernmost tip of Hokkaido, is separated from the Russian island of Sakhalin by a narrow strait, and is often visited by Russian fishermen and tourists. It is about 675 miles northeast of Tokyo.
Japan has some of the world's toughest gun control laws, and shootings are relatively rare.
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