On the 3rd, an elderly woman who lived alone was found murdered in a house in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture. , Police interviews revealed that most of the injuries were concentrated on the head.
Police are investigating on suspicion of robbery and murder because there were signs that the room was searched.
After 7:00 pm on the 3rd, Yasuko Komatsu (85), who lives alone in this house, was found murdered in a house in Nakoso-cho, Iwaki City.
According to police, an autopsy revealed that she died from traumatic injuries to her head, with her head bones broken and her wounds bleeding.
The wounds appear to have been caused by a severe blow to her with some kind of weapon, and although she had multiple injuries on other parts of her body, most of her injuries were concentrated on her head. It means that
Her eldest son, who came to see how she was doing because she couldn't contact her, found her lying face down in the hallway near the entrance.
Based on the condition of her body, it is possible that Komatsu was murdered the day before her discovery.
The scene was located in a residential area about 1.6 kilometers northwest of Nakoso Station on the JR Joban Line.