SAITAMA, Japan – Two elderly women died Wednesday after being found bleeding and unconscious at a nursing home in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo, with police searching for a person seen fleeing the scene in security camera footage.
Police said they received an emergency call at around 4:55 a.m. after a nursing home staffer found the two, believed to be in their 80s or 90s, on the fourth and fifth floors of the five-story facility in the city of Tsurugashima. They were pronounced dead after being taken to a hospital.
Some 60 to 70 residents were in the facility at the time, but only the two victims were affected, according to the Saitama prefectural police.
The nursing home is located in a residential area about 250 meters south of Tobu Railway’s Wakaba Station.
AloJapan.com