THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 26, 2023 at 18:13 JST
Police officers at a Nagoya karaoke parlor where a young woman was stabbed to death on Dec. 26 (Tadashi Mizowaki)
NAGOYA--A 25-year-old man arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing a young woman at a karaoke parlor here admitted to drowning another woman in a bathtub, police said Dec. 26.
The man who carried no ID but identified himself as Haruki Soga called police at around 11:20 a.m. and said, “I have killed someone.”
Police rushed to the karaoke parlor in Nakamura Ward and found a woman believed to be in her 20s with a stab wound to her chest.
She was taken to hospital where she was declared dead about 90 minutes later.
According to investigative sources, as he was being arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, Soga told police officers, “I drowned a woman in a condominium.”
Police officers who went to the Naka Ward location provided by the suspect found a woman believed to be in her 30s dead in the bathtub. She had no external injuries.
Police are trying to identify the two women and looking for a link between the two deaths.
The condominium is located about 2 kilometers from the karaoke parlor, which is near Nagoya Station.
Soga was arrested on suspicion of murder after the stabbing victim’s death was confirmed.
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