December 6, 2009
TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese police Saturday arrested four children of US military personnel on suspicion of attempted murder after a woman crashed her moped when it hit a rope that was stretched across the road, reports said.
The 23-year-old suffered a fractured skull after being thrown from her bike near western Tokyo's US Yokota Air Base on August 13.
The woman later told police she saw four foreigners shortly before the incident, according to local media.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested the four, aged between 15 and 18, when the US military handed them over, according to Jiji Press and Japan's public broadcaster NHK.
A surveillance camera recorded images of three boys and one girl in the area at the time, and the four allegedly acted "suspiciously" when later questioned by police.
Officers obtained arrest warrants late November and requested the US military hand them over as soon as possible.
Immediate confirmation of the reports was not available.
