Post by Admin on Jul 26, 2013 12:14:30 GMT
A 63-year-old man wanted in connection with the murder of five people in a remote Japanese hamlet has been captured after a manhunt involving more than 400 police.
Three bodies were found on Sunday after two houses in Mitake, a tiny community in western Japan's Yamaguchi prefecture, were gutted by a "suspicious" fire, Yamaguchi police spokesman Katsumi Harada told CNN on Wednesday.
The following morning, two more corpses were found a few hundred meters away in the same neighborhood in the victims' respective homes.
An autopsy revealed that all five victims were killed by injuries to the head, prompting police to set up a task force to investigate a possible serial killer, Harada said.
The wanted man -- who lived next to the burned out houses -- disappeared, prompting a huge manhunt.
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