24-year-old man arrested for abandoning woman's body in Nagano

Police said Sunday they have arrested a 24-year-old man on suspicion of abandoning the corpse of a 42-year-old woman in idle farmland in Nagano Prefecture. Daisuke Kaneko, a dispatch worker from Ueda in the prefecture, had been on a wanted list an dturned himself in Saturday night.

The woman, Harumi Yamabe, also from Ueda, was found dead last Sunday on the farmland, after having sought police help the previous day as her daughter was having trouble with a male friend. She had several stab wounds in her chest and other parts of her body and the cause of her death was determined to be loss of blood.