TOKYO (AFP) - A massive manhunt that saw thousands of Japanese police flood the streets ended on live television Thursday with the capture of an escaped rape suspect.
Footage shot from a helicopter showed dozens of plainclothes police officers and their uniformed colleagues surrounding a man believed to be Yuta Sugimoto, 20, who slipped away during his visit to a prosecutors' office in Kawasaki, a port city south of Tokyo.
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