TOKYO – A 40-year-old South Korean woman died after she was found with her throat slashed in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward on Monday afternoon, and a fellow countryman has been detained in connection with the case, police and an investigative source said.
The police received an emergency call from a bystander around 1:35 p.m. saying that a woman covered in blood had collapsed on a street and a man had fled the scene. She was taken to a hospital unconscious and was later pronounced dead.
The Tokyo police detained the 30-year-old South Korean man at Tokyo’s Haneda airport after searching for him on suspicion of murder, according to the source.
The self-employed woman had visited a building near the scene for work, the source said.
The woman told the police in Tokyo late last month she was having problems with her boyfriend, a South Korean national visiting Japan, and was trying to break up with him.
The scene is a residential neighborhood around 500 meters northeast of Komazawa University Station on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line.
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