Japanese police have arrested a man after finding parts of nine bodies in his apartment in Zama, near Tokyo.<\/p>\n
Police found two severed heads in a cold-storage container outside the flat of the suspect, named as Takahiro Shiraishi, while investigating the disappearance of a woman.<\/p>\n
They also found the body parts of seven other people, also stored in cool boxes, in his apartment.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old is being held on suspicion of disposing of the bodies.<\/p>\n
Police had found the body parts of eight females and one male, some in varying stages of decomposition, Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reported.<\/p>\n
Mr Shiraishi told police he had killed the nine and hid their bodies, broadcaster NHK reported, citing the Metropolitan Police Department.<\/p>\n
“I killed them and did some work on the bodies in order to hide the evidence,” NHK quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, his next-door neighbour said he had started smelling strange odours from the flat after Mr Shiraishi moved in August, NHK and Asahi Shimbun said.<\/p>\n
Police made the grisly discovery while looking for a 23-year-old woman, who had been missing since 21 October.<\/p>\n
Investigators found that Mr Shiraishi had been in contact with her, after she wrote online that she wanted to commit suicide.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, reporters gathered outside the suspect’s home, while neighbours expressed shock at the incident.<\/p>\n
“It’s a quiet residential area here, with a day care centre nearby. I can’t believe the bodies were discovered in an area like this,” a 41-year-old neighbour told Mainichi Shimbun.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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