OSAKA (TR) – An employee of Yao City was found stabbed to death on Thursday in what Osaka Prefectural Police are viewing as the result of a suicide, reports Mainichi Broadcasting Service (Nov. 10).
At around 8:00 a.m., an employee at the city’s municipal office tipped off police about “a man aged in his 50s who has been stabbed with a knife in his chest” on an emergency stairwell.
Police officers and firefighters arriving at the scene found the man collapsed on a landing. He was confirmed dead at the scene.
According to the Sankei Shimbun (Nov. 10), a will from the man, an employee in a residential housing division of the office, was found nearby.