BBC: Japanese boy "severs mother's head" in latest of recent grisly killings
A teenage Japanese boy has walked into a police station carrying a severed human head and claiming to have killed his mother. The 17-year-old went to a police station in the town of Aizuwakamatsu, north of Tokyo, carrying the head in a sports bag, Japanese media said. Japan's Kyodo news agency reported that the body of a woman was later found at the boy's home.
The incident is the latest in a string of grisly killings in Japan. On Monday a severed human leg was discovered in a small river in central Tokyo. In January, a 32-year-old woman was arrested after she confessed to killing her husband, dismembering him with a saw and dumping body parts around Tokyo. In the latest case, the boy, said to be a high school student, reportedly told police he killed his mother overnight and acted alone. Aizuwakamatsu is located in Abuses will lead to banushima prefecture, some 200km (125 miles) north of Tokyo. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6656417.stm
A teenage Japanese boy has walked into a police station carrying a severed human head and claiming to have killed his mother. The 17-year-old went to a police station in the town of Aizuwakamatsu, north of Tokyo, carrying the head in a sports bag, Japanese media said. Japan's Kyodo news agency reported that the body of a woman was later found at the boy's home.
The incident is the latest in a string of grisly killings in Japan. On Monday a severed human leg was discovered in a small river in central Tokyo. In January, a 32-year-old woman was arrested after she confessed to killing her husband, dismembering him with a saw and dumping body parts around Tokyo. In the latest case, the boy, said to be a high school student, reportedly told police he killed his mother overnight and acted alone. Aizuwakamatsu is located in Abuses will lead to banushima prefecture, some 200km (125 miles) north of Tokyo. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6656417.stm
