On the afternoon of the 18th, a woman in her 40s and a man in her 60s were found dead in a waterfall basin in the mountains of Chichibu City, Saitama Prefecture.

The police are investigating the situation at that time because the two were climbing a river.

Around 9 am on the 18th, the husband of a 48-year-old woman in Mihama Ward, Chiba Prefecture, reported to the police that "my wife who went to Chichibu City on a day trip yesterday will not come home."



When police and firefighters searched the mountains of Nakatsugawa in Chichibu City, where a woman said she was going to climb a river, the woman and a 61-year-old man living in Ogawa Town, Saitama Prefecture, died in a waterfall basin after noon on the 18th. I found.



According to the police, the two were climbing companions, and they were found wearing helmets and other equipment for climbing the river, and it seems that they were climbing the river together, so the police are investigating the situation at that time.