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An 81-year-old woman was found dead and her husband unconscious at their home in Tokyo's Hachioji, police said Saturday.
According to police, a caregiver for the woman, Setsuko Saito, found the couple at around 9 a.m. Friday and called 119, Fuji TV reported. Police said Saito was lying on a futon in a room on the first floor. She was confirmed dead at the scene. There were no external injuries on her body.
Saito's husband, also in his 80s, was found in a another room in a semi-conscious state. He was taken to hospital where doctors said he had swallowed a large amount of an unspecified medicine.
Police said they will wait until he recovers before questioning him about his wife's death.
© Japan Today
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Fapster
sounds like a murder, possibly murder suicide. when he recovers he will need to be interrogated. he was found in another room, sounds like murder to me...
Daniel Naumoff
Those invisible bots... It is possible that he found her dead, thought that this is it and ingested medicine to "go after her". Also possible he got tired of "unending" care for his wife and first he fed her some medicine, then ingested it himself.
Aly Rustom
Don't rule out a double suicide either. He could have killed with or without her consent and then tried to end his own life. We just don't know until we get the whole story. Let's just wait and see.