A woman and a baby girl were found collapsed in a parking lot between an apartment building and a financial institution in Hachinohe City, Aomori Prefecture, on Tuesday morning, in what police believe may have been a murder-suicide.
According to police, an employee of the financial institution called 119 at around 8 a.m. Tuesday and said a woman and child were lying on the ground in the parking lot, NHK reported.
When police and firefighters arrived, they found the woman, believed to be in her 30s or 40s, and the baby girl, not yet one year old, bleeding from head injuries. They were both confirmed dead at the scene.
Police believe the woman, holding her baby, may have jumped from one of the upper floors of the 11-story apartment building.
© Japan Today
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Namahage
Social workers,hang your heads in shame.
Meiyouwenti
“When police and firefighters arrived,”
Firefighters? You call the fire department at 119 for emergency medical service but firefighters don’t usually accompany the ambulance unless there’s a fire.
WiseOneIn Kansai
Firefighters and the ambulance are one unit, they come from the same dispatch centre. Some staff alternate between duties. Possibly, all ambulances were dispatched at the time of call.
Anyway, a terrible loss of life.
Speed
What should be one of the most memorable times of your life w/ a baby toddler turns into an absolutely tragedy. RIP to both of them esp to the little baby.
Wesley
I can't imagine the horrible sight that emergency responders must have seen when they arrived.
That poor baby didn't deserve this.
Rest In Peace, Little Angel.
HopeSpringsEternal
Single Mom's need help in Japan and are often too proud to ask for it, something needs to be done about it.
WA4TKG
T I J: “This is Japan”
R I P
Abe234
It's not their fault if she hasn't been referred to them. The constant reporting of these incidents also encourages copycat attempts.So it is not the social workers fault, although they are the easiest to blame. It is a well-known fact that the press is also not supposed to report these events ( as per UN guidelines) because of the Werther Effect. It has been well-documented and is the main reason why I predicted this would happen again just a few weeks ago. one. It's well known that it increases the occurrence of these incidents within a few weeks. You might notice that we don't have the same number of group suicides, or the suicides with some certain gas appearing on the news because the press continually went on about it triggering the werther effect. Infact how many have we read here since New year? several.!
If the press here is to publish it, why won't JapanToday also add the helpline number and encourage those who are having problems to call for help. This just tell you what happens, washes there hands of it and then doesn't do anything to help someone who maybe having problems.
JerseyDevil
"collapsed in a parking lot between an apartment building and a financial institution"
smithinjapan
More family murders than usual in the crime section today alone. Poor child... probably looked into her mother's eyes with love and a sense of comfort when she saw her, and mom took her in those arms and murdered her. I hope just for this woman and anyone like her there is a hell.
jalan5
"absolutely tragedy. RIP to both of them esp to the little baby."
Tamarama
Seems like there already was, and it forced her to do something extreme and awful to escape it.
You don't know anything about her story at all apart from this one fact - including all of the critical details about why she did that, so don't just call her a 'murderer' without some context.
Desert Tortoise
Where I live a fire truck always responds with the ambulance.
Darren Ward
Absolutely heartbreaking