Fourteen people were injured in a stabbing attack in a factory in central Japan in which an unspecified liquid was also sprayed, authorities said.

Fourteen people were injured in a stabbing attack in a factory in central Japan during which an unspecified liquid was also sprayed, an emergency services official said on Friday, December 26.

He said a call was received at about 4:30 pm (local time) from a nearby rubber factory saying “five or six people were stabbed by someone" and that a “spray-like liquid" had also been used.