A dismembered body part believed to be that of a missing Filipino woman has been found stuffed in a paper bag in her apartment in Tokyo's Minato-ku, sparking a search for a man who also lived there, police said.
Police said that a 20-year-old Filipino woman also living in the residence found what appeared to be a severed human torso there at about 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, and alerted Tokyo Wangan Police Station.
Another Filipino woman, also in her 20s, was missing from the apartment, and police believe the body part belonged to her. Police have launched an investigation on suspicion of mutilation of a corpse, and are searching for a man in his 40s also living in the apartment in the belief he may have information on the woman.
Investigators said that the man and several Filipino women had been living in the apartment. The women were working at the same bar in Tokyo's Roppongi district, and the man is believed to have been an acquaintance of the missing woman.
Police said that the missing woman failed to turn up at work on Thursday evening, and her roommate returned to the apartment to check on her only to discover the body part. At the time, the man was also reportedly in the apartment, appeared shocked to see the other woman. By the time police arrived, he had fled.
The woman who filed the police report and others living there left the apartment at about 8 a.m. on Thursday, but the missing woman was still asleep at the time, investigators said.
Source: Mainichi Daily News
Subject: Woman's dismembered torso found in paper bag in Tokyo apartment 
Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:03 pm
