A woman found dead on Mount Hiko, Shizuoka Prefecture, accidentally fell to her death while climbing the mountain, police believe.
Police received a report from a Mount Hiko lookout point on Friday at around 11:30 a.m. saying that a woman had fallen from an observation platform, Fuji TV reported. Police officers and fire department personnel arrived at the scene and found the woman, believed to be a Shizuoka resident in her 30s, lying motionless in the snow. Police say she was confirmed dead at the scene.
The woman fell around 40 meters down the mountain. Police say a meter-high fence had been built along the edge of the cliff onto which the woman fell.
© Japan Today
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cierzo98
@NYC_Samurai The final sentence *
*" actually states that she fell onto the edge of a cliff, along the edge of which a fence had been built. That's not quite the same thing. It's still confusing however, and probably not what the writer intended to say.
NYC_Samurai
Anyone with a modicum of English grammar can recognize that the last sentence is indeed misleading. It overtly suggests that she fell onto the fence.
Elbuda Mexicano
I know, I know, it sucks but this is part of life and DEATH in Japan, most Western minds can not understand this, but talk to most Japanese and suicide is not that big of a deal to them.
Elbuda Mexicano
Japanese?? Sorry but my hunch is she wanted to die and well now she got what she wanted. RIP??
Angus McGillicuddy
There's nothing wrong with the last sentence. There was a metre-high (waist-high?) fence around the cliff where the observation deck, and she fell over it (or jumped, whichever suits your imagiation).
Disillusioned
There is something wrong with that last sentence. Did she fall onto the fence?
Sadly, I suspect suicide. There were no witnesses? Why was she there by herself? Why did she climb over the safety barrier? She's a jumper, for sure!
Alex Einz
darwin in action
megosaa
holly cow! thats not good :( people have to be more careful..
nath
One meter high is obviously not enough. Suicide perhaps?