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Man arrested over wife’s murder in car

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Police in Hitachiota City, Ibaraki Prefecture, have arrested a 29-year-old Turkish man on suspicion of killing his wife in a car parked outside a convenience store on Wednesday night.

According to police, the suspect, Mehmet Kuru, is accused of stabbing his Japanese wife in the neck at around 7:20 p.m., Fuji TV reported. Police said a witness saw the couple in the car and that they appeared to be arguing.

The suspect got out of the car and went into the convenience store where he told a clerk that he had stabbed his wife. The victim also got out of the car and collapsed on the ground.

A witness outside the store called 110 and said a woman in a car had been stabbed. Police rushed to the scene and detained Kuru. Police said he has admitted to stabbing his wife. The woman was rushed to hospital where she was pronounced dead.

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He is not Turkish. He is a Kurdish man who came from Turkey. Know the difference.

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XuluxAug. 13  09:03 am JST

Who brings a knife to a convenience store?

Apparently this idiot!

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"What caused this crime?"

There was a case long ago, where an african snapped and assaulted some local natives. His reason is that he got tired of encountering angry/hating faces for no reason when he went outside, and did not have anyone to discuss his feelings about being a foreigner, receiving such hostile sporadic instantaneous encounters with unknown local natives. He said he told the authorities about it, and received harsh interrogation, and intimidation. He also grabbed his wife because she never understood his point of view. She threatened to call the flops, which added to his frustration. IMO as the corona surges to larger vast scales, we may see, more cases as such.

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I am surprised. Normally they give the name of the dead victim in these kinds of stories. Of course, it was his wife, but nothing about her name, her age, or where she is from, as is written in other articles.

I can only hope they did not have children together, as the children will lose both parents (her to the afterlife and him to a Japanese jail for 12-18 years, followed by a deportation.)

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Since the culprit was not Japanese, the number of comments on the article is low.

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On behalf of the Turks, I apologize to all Japanese, I am ashamed to be the same race as this murderer, please forgive us and do not misunderstand the Turks, Japanese and Turks are right friends, I hope this murderer gets the death penalty, we apologize japan :(

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" The woman was rushed to hospital where she was pronounced dead."

another D.O.A.

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What caused this crime?

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Death penalty!

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Oh God! RIP... why he had a knife in his car he planned it, or they going for picnic ?

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Who brings a knife to a convenience store?

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Tragic events. A man stabbed and killed his wife after they appeared to be arguing. No argument is worth a human life.

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