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Police in Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture, have arrested a 47-year-old man on suspicion of killing a 56-year-old woman at a hotel. According to police, Atsushi Egawa, a company employee, who was arrested on Wednesday, used to work at the hotel and was acquainted with the victim, Hitomi Saeki, Sankei Shimbun reported. Saeki was found murdered at around 7:30 a.
m. on Nov 1 by another employee arriving for work. The body was on the floor behind the check-in desk.
Saeki's face was swollen and her neck had been slashed with what appeared to be a knife. Her wrists were tied. Police said Saeki had been alone on night duty.
An automatic check-out machine in one room had been wrecked and a towel had been wrapped around a security camera in the lobby. Police said Egawa is accused of killing Saeki between 11:50 p.m.
on Oct 31 and around 7 a.m. on Nov 1.
He is also suspected to stealing tens of thousands of yen from the hotel cash box. Egawa surfaced as a suspect after an analysis of street surveillance camera footage showed him entering the hotel on Oct 31, police said, adding that he has admitted to killing Saeki..
