Man’s corpse found in trunk of car overturned in Kobe field
By Tokyo Reporter Staff on May 6, 2021
HYOGO (TR) – Hyogo Prefectural Police launched an investigation after a male corpse was found in a vehicle in Kobe City on Wednesday, reports Nippon News Network (May 6).
At around 8:15 p.m., a resident in the Yamada area of Kita Ward alerted police. “There’s an overturned vehicle in a rice field with the alarm sounding,” the caller said.
Officers arriving at the scene about two and a half hours later found the body of a man in the trunk.
According to the Kobe-Kita Police Station, the man is the 66-year-old manager of a convenience store in Kobe.