HOKKAIDO (TR) – Police are investigating after two men were found dead following a suspected fall from a seventh-floor condominium in Sapporo City on Monday night, reports Nippon News Network (Nov. 10).
According to emergency services, a call was placed at around 8:20 p.m. by a resident who heard a loud thud and discovered two men collapsed on the ground-level premises of the apartment complex in Kita Ward’s Ainosato 3-jo 6-chome area.
Both victims were rushed to a nearby hospital, where they were later pronounced dead.
Investigators believe the two men, estimated to be in their 30s or 40s, were family members living together in a unit on the building’s seventh floor.
“I briefly heard an indescribable human cry,” a resident of the building told reporters. “When I stepped out onto the balcony, someone in the parking lot opposite told me that people had fallen from above.”
Police suspect the pair plunged from their seventh-floor apartment and are actively investigating the circumstances of their deaths, with detectives refusing to rule out foul play.
