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Police arrested a woman in her 30s Monday evening after she allegedly injured two male passengers with pepper spray inside a train on Tokyo’s Yamanote Line.

According to investigators, police received an emergency call shortly after 7:40 p.m. from an employee at the JR Otsuka Station in the capital’s Toshima Ward, stating that someone had used pepper spray on the train.

The suspect had pushed past other passengers in order to get to a priority seat, which led to a dispute with a male passenger who chided her, according to police. She then allegedly discharged one of the two pepper spray canisters she had, injuring the man, who is in his 60s, and another man, also in his 60s.

One of the victims was taken to hospital but his injury was minor, police said.

The suspect reportedly told police that she was carrying the spray canisters for self-defense purposes.

The suspect was arrested at the scene on suspicion of assault, but was later released on the grounds that she was unable to handle being detained, NHK reported. She has admitted to the charges, according to investigators.

Police plan to question her further on a voluntary basis.

A man in his 50s who was at the station at the time of the incident told NHK, “When I got off my train there were lots of police and firefighters, and I wondered what had happened. Pepper spray is really bad if it gets in your eyes. It’s frightening that something like that was released on a train.”

Another man in his 40s said, “When I got off, a crowd had formed and a man was sitting on a stretcher. I heard that someone used pepper spray and people were injured. It’s really scary.”

The commotion caused by the incident resulted in delays of up to 15 minutes, according to East Japan Railway.