Police in Saitama have arrested a 70-year-old man on suspicion of killing a 30-year-old woman with whom he lived by beating her with a golf club.
According to police,Yoshio Uchida is accused of beating Akina Chiba with a golf club early Sunday morning while she was asleep at their apartment, Kyodo News reported. Uchida called 119 and said that he had hit a woman in the face and that she was unconscious.
Chiba was taken to hospital where she died later.
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