A 61-year-old office worker was arrested for setting fire to an apartment in Yatomi City, Aichi Prefecture, killing three people. Clothes left in front of the room on the first floor where a man and a woman lived among the three people who died. An interview with the police revealed that the fire was suspected to have been set on fire.
Police suspect that the fire was aimed at two people, and are investigating the details of the incident.
On the morning of the 3rd of this month, a two-story wooden apartment building burned down in Hirashima-cho, Yatomi City, Aichi Prefecture, killing a 68-year-old man and a 57-year-old woman who lived in the same room on the first floor, and a 66-year-old woman who lived on the second floor. Suspect Shinobu Sato (61), a company employee living in Yatomi City, was arrested on suspicion of murder and arson in connection with the fire that killed three people, including a man aged 30.
He has admitted to the charges during investigation.
In this incident, police have newly learned that Sato is suspected of setting fire to a large amount of clothing that was piled up in front of the room where the man and woman lived on the first floor of the apartment. .
The three people who died were known to each other, and police suspect that two of the three people, a man and a woman, were the target of the arson, and are investigating the details of the incident.