TOKYO (TR) – A 14-year-old woman plunged to her demise from a multitenant constructing within the Kabukicho red-light district of Shinjuku Ward earlier this week. Tokyo Metropolitan Police suspect she had overdosed on medication, studies TV Asahi (Oc. 14).
At round 5:30 p.m. on Monday, a pedestrian alerted emergency companies. “A person has fallen,” the caller mentioned.
According to the Shinjuku Police Station, the center college scholar jumped from the touchdown of the constructing’s stairs and struck a male pedestrian, aged in his 20s.
The woman was later confirmed useless at a hospital. The pedestrian suffered a head damage. However, his accidents aren’t thought of life-threatening, police mentioned.
The incident happened in an space of bars, eating places and love motels, positioned about 200 meters from the Shinjuku Ward Office.
The woman is believed to have been a member of the group generally known as “Toyoko Kids.” Popularized on social media as toyoko, the title is a reference to the Toho Cinemas advanced within the coronary heart of Kabukicho. Members are sometimes runaways and delinquents.
Just earlier than the incident, the woman might have overdosed on over-the-counter medicine, police mentioned.
Drug overdoses amongst younger individuals in Kabukicho has turn into a priority for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. As such, the division operates the “Young Telephone Corner” hotline (03-3580-4970). The service offers counselling to individuals underneath the age of 20 and their households 24 hours a day.