Woman’s corpse found at home after husband dies in traffic accident
By Tokyo Reporter Staff on January 1, 2021
OKINAWA (TR) – The corpse of a woman was found in her residence in Uruma City on Monday after her husband was involved in a fatal traffic accident, police said, reports NHK (Dec. 30).
At just past 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, police found Harue Higa, 66, dead inside the residence in the Iribaru area. She had slash wounds to the face.
The day before, Higa’s husband, aged in his 60s, was involved in traffic incident on National Route 329 at the Ishikawa Bypass.
In that accident, the husband was killed after he plowed his vehicle into the back of a trailer truck.