THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 24, 2023 at 15:11 JST
The apartment where the 110 police emergency call was made in Mito on July 24, reporting that two children had been killed. (Suzuka Tominaga)
MITO--A 39-year-old woman was taken into custody here on July 24 after she called police to report that she had killed her two children and their bodies were found.
Police said that the woman living in an apartment in the Hirasucho district of Mito told them in the call made at around 6:30 a.m. that she had killed her children. When police officers arrived at the residence, they found a boy and a girl lying inside, bleeding.
According to the Ibaraki prefectural police's Mito Police Station, the woman was the mother of two children, Keishin Ota, 8, a third-grader, and Riko, 5, a preschooler. The children were both taken to a hospital where they were pronounced dead.
The police have taken the mother into custody and are questioning her on suspicion of murder. According to what the mother told police, she is 39 and lived with her two children. She told police that she had killed the two people.
(This article was written by Yuji Harada and Suzuka Tominaga.)
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