HYOGO (TR) – Police in Kobe City have launched a homicide investigation after a male customer and a female employee were found bleeding to death inside a sex parlor on Sunday night, reports the Kobe Shimbun (June 29).
Shortly before 10:00 p.m. on June 28, emergency services received a frantic call from a fuzoku (commercial sex) parlor in the Fukuharacho district of Hyogo Ward. The caller reported that a “male customer and a female staff member are unconscious.”
Upon arriving at the scene, police and rescue workers discovered the pair — both believed to be in their 30s — collapsed and bleeding profusely inside one of the parlor’s private rooms. They were rushed to a local hospital where they were subsequently pronounced dead.
According to police, the female victim was an employee at the shop who had been serving the man at the time of the incident.
Both victims sustained severe wounds to their upper bodies. A bladed weapon, believed to be the instrument used in the deadly incident, was recovered from the blood-soaked room.
Investigators are currently hurrying to formally identify the deceased while investigating the circumstances leading up to the violent deaths, operating under the assumption that the pair became embroiled in a fatal crime.
