On the 20th of this month, one room in an apartment in Tsurumi Ward, Yokohama City was burned and a woman died, and the police arrested the husband of a woman living in this room on the night of the 22nd on suspicion of arson.
Suspect Shuhei Aburakawa (36), an unemployed man from Tsukudano-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, was arrested.
According to the police, he is suspected of setting fire to his room on the second floor of a two-story wooden apartment early in the morning on the 20th of this month.
At the time of the fire, he himself reported to the fire department, saying, ``When I woke up, the room was full of smoke, and my wife, who was sleeping with me, was left behind.'' When the police waited to be discharged from the hospital and listened to the circumstances, they admitted that they had set fire to their home.
In this fire, the body of his wife Yurika (36) was found in the burnt ruins, and the police are investigating the details.