Another wild day...

タイトル：またトチ狂った日…

For me, it was just another busy day at the press club, being fed up with trifling matters I was told to cover.
For my colleagues at the Current Affairs Division, it surely was a wild day!

In the morning, a tsunami alert was issued in the southwestern islands, and in the afternoon...
Another crime with gunfires!

(photo by Jiji, article from Kyodo)
◆ Man fires 9 shots from apartment after shooting gangster to death
TOKYO, April 20 KYODO
A man armed with a handgun locked himself in an apartment room in suburban Tokyo and fired nine shots out of a window noon Friday, apparently after shooting a gangster to death several kilometers away in Kanagawa Prefecture across the prefectural border, police said.
One of the shots hit a police patrol car which rushed to the apartment in the city of Machida, around 30 km southwest of central Tokyo. No one has been hurt so far and no hostages appear to have been taken, the police said.

I had no time to spare to leave the press club, just hoping my distinguished colleagues will do fine at the crime scene!

俺にとってはまた記者クラブで忙しい日に過ぎなかった。しょーもない取材でくたくたになりながら。
社会部の同僚たちにとっては間違いなくトチ狂った日だったろう！
朝に南西諸島で津波注意報が出され、午後には…
また銃を使った犯罪だ！
（写真は時事、記事は共同、和訳は略：銃を持った男が暴力団員を殺害した後、町田市で銃を９発発射し、その後もアパートに立てこもったままという記事）

記者クラブを離れる時間はなかったんで、とにかく優秀な同僚たちが現場できっちり仕事をこなすことを祈ってた。