Woman found dead in apartment after daughter jumps to death

YOKOHAMA — A 71-year-old woman was found dead in her Yokohama apartment about an hour after one of her daughters jumped to her death from the roof of a nearby building on Wednesday morning. According to police, the body of Motoko Sugase was found by her oldest daughter in the livingroom at her apartment in Konan Ward at around 12:10 a.m. TBS quoted police as saying that she had been strangled to death. About one hour earlier, the victim’s second oldest daughter, 45, who lived with her mother, apparently jumped to her death from the rooftop of a nearby condominium, police said.

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