By The Straits Times | Created at 2025-03-21 12:13:33 | Updated at 2025-04-04 18:34:19
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TOKYO - A 41-year-old man was arrested in Osaka Prefecture on March 21 on suspicion of killing his niece, police said.
A metal case filled with concrete and containing the body of the girl, who was 6 or 7 years old at the time of her death, was found dumped in Yao, a city in the prefecture.
The suspect Noriyuki Iimori had already been arrested on suspicion of abandoning the body.
According to police sources, he is suspected of murdering his older sister’s daughter sometime between late 2006 and 2007.
Iimori’s sister had left home, abandoning her daughter, and Iimori had taken the girl in.
An autopsy revealed that strong force was applied to the girl’s abdomen, causing her to die from internal bleeding. THE JAPAN NEWS/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
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