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Crime › Man shoots himself after being holed up in car for 8 hours in Saitama

A man was arrested Tuesday after being holed up with a handgun inside a car for more than eight hours in Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture. Police… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Tue, Jun 03 2008

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