Tokyo Metropolitan Police officers stand guard outside the home where suspect Teruyuki Takabayashi temporarily took refuge in Fussa, Tokyo, on Wednesday. | JIJI

Police are currently on the hunt for a 44-year-old man who allegedly attacked two high school boys with a hammer and sprayed an unidentified liquid at responding police officers in western Tokyo on Wednesday morning, leaving five people injured, authorities said.

Police received an emergency call around 7:20 a.m. reporting that “a man with a hammer is assaulting people” on a street in the city of Fussa, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said.

The suspect, Teruyuki Takabayashi, whose occupation is unknown, is alleged to have struck the two students with a hammer before spraying officers who arrived at the scene with an unknown liquid substance.…