In the early hours of the 9th, there was a fire at a house in Machida City, Tokyo, where one man died and one woman, who is believed to be his mother, was in a critical condition.
The Metropolitan Police Department believes that the deceased was a man in his 50s living in this house, and is investigating the cause of the fire while confirming his identity.
Around 0:25 am on the 9th, when a fire broke out from a three-story housing complex in Yamazaki-cho, Machida City, a nearby person called 119.
According to the Tokyo Fire Department, 19 fire trucks extinguished the fire and the fire was almost extinguished after about an hour and a half, but this fire burned about 50 square meters of a room on the second floor of the housing complex.
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, two people, a man and a woman, were transported to the hospital in serious condition due to the fire, but one man was later confirmed dead.
After the fire, a man in his 50s who lived in this house and his mother in her 80s could not be contacted, so the Metropolitan Police Department assumed that the man who died was this man, and proceeded to confirm the identity of the man, and detailed the cause of the fire. I'm looking into
The site is a residential area about 3 kilometers northeast of Kobuchi Station on the JR Yokohama Line.