NAGOYA —

Ambulance personnel were called to a Nagoya City apartment on Saturday night and found an 18-year-old girl unconscious on the floor in her underwear and her body wet, police said Sunday.

Emergency services received a call at around 10.30 p.m. from a man who said he was asked to call for an ambulance by a male acquaintance. Ambulance staff rushed to the third-floor apartment in Kita Ward and found Naho Yonemori lying on the floor near the bath, with no visible external injuries. She was pronounced dead at a hospital about an hour later, and an autopsy carried out Sunday was unable to determine the cause of death, police said.

A hammer was found in the apartment and a window facing the stairwell of the adjacent apartment building was smashed. Police are questioning the man who called emergency services and are trying to locate the man who called him, asking him to call for an ambulance.

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  bamboohat at 11:35 AM JST - 31st August

  Do they allow for anonymous calls for emergency services? If the guy who asked his friend who then called the emergency services could have called anonymously, it might have saved time, and she might still be alive.

  It astounds me the number of times there's a case like, and the first person on the scene doesn't call for paramedics automatically, rather they call a friend, or their boss, or their manager or supervisor.

  They could save a lot of lives simply by drilling into the population:

  medical emergency = immediately call 119, no questions.

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  oberst at 05:21 PM JST - 31st August

  A hammer was found in the apartment and a window facing the stairwell of the adjacent apartment building was smashed

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  oberst at 05:22 PM JST - 31st August

  A hammer was found in the apartment and a window facing the stairwell of the adjacent apartment building was smashed.................

  Max the Silver hammer did it !!

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  benhur at 06:42 PM JST - 31st August

  sounds sus.. any updates JT?

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  WilliB at 07:19 PM JST - 31st August

  If he did it, the sentence is too short. If he didn´t, it is too long.

  Is this perhaps a case of an incompetent court trying to make a compromise?

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