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A man who was windsurfing on the Yodo River in Settsu City, Osaka Prefecture, found the body of a woman floating in the water on Tuesday afternoon.
According to police, the man spotted the woman, who was wearing a backpack, at around 2:35 p.m. about 12 meters from the river bank, Fuji TV reported. The backpack contained several envelopes filled with 3.25 million yen in cash. There were also two small rocks that weighed about one kilogram each.
Police said there woman had no visible injuries or signs of violence on her body. She was wearing a black jacket, black pants, and sneakers.
Police said an autopsy will be held to determine the cause death.
© Japan Today
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mountaingrill
Sorry to here about the death of this young lady. The rocks in the bag are quite small. I suspect they were to weigh down the bag only. Perhaps she had gone to the rive to dispose of the money for some reason, but slipped and fallen in herself. The rivers have been swollen durring the last couple of days due to the recent rains. RIP young lady.
Brian Wheway
Thats about £24.000, what was she doing with that sort of cash? this does sound suspicious, but its sad that she's lost her life (possibly) trying to hide this cash.
WilliB
Rocks, cash, young, drowned and no injuries? That is a strange story, would be curious to hear what is behind it.
kurisupisu
@ Brian Wheway
its not suspicious in Japan at all.
In the UK and the States the war on holding cash makes it so though.
Alexandre T. Ishii
Weird and scary to imagine what happened. Not my novel to read.
Richard Gallagher
Ah, idle speculation. Maybe she fell out of an airplane.
thepersoniamnow
May she RIP.
Since she had no injuries, looks like she may have been brought there too
bokuda
Ah. Idle speculation. She stole the money, but couldn't run fast enough.
sir_bentley28
There's something missing here. Were the stones used to weigh her body down or to make the bag sink? Was the bag tied to her body with the stones in it so she would sink? Its not clear in this article.
NCIS Reruns
Somewhere right now a killer is kicking himself for forgetting to remove the money before depositing her body in the river.
Gobshite
Reading isn't a strong point around here is it?
YeahRight
I find it hard to believe that 2 kilograms of stones would sink a body.
sir_bentley28
Exactly! Which is why I think something is missing.
Tom
I think something has to do with her being all dressed in black and wearing sneakers. What color were those?
Do the hustle
This could very well be some kind of twisted suicide.
DOEL HARRY
I guess she wanted to die and hoping to take her money with her.
aomorisamurai
I hope they can quickly identify her, notify family and get down to figuring this situation out.