SHIZUOKA, Japan - A 20-year-old Indonesian woman was stabbed to death in her apartment in Hamamatsu, central Japan, police said Monday as they investigate whether a man who was fatally hit by a train nearby was involved in the case.
The woman, identified as Keiko Altaira Hanafi, was found stabbed and in a critical condition by a police officer at around 11:40 a.m. in the apartment where she lived with her parents. She was later confirmed dead at a hospital.
According to the police, a neighbor made an emergency call after hearing a woman scream next door. They also reported a man in a black outfit had left the apartment.
Shortly afterward, a man was hit and killed by a train on the JR Tokaido Line. The driver of the train witnessed a person wearing black clothes jumping a fence and entering the tracks.
The stabbing occurred in a residential area about 500 meters west of JR Maisaka Station in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. A witness in his 70s said he saw a trail of blood from the doorstep to a parking lot outside.
