HOKKAIDO –
A 77-year-old man charged with tried homicide has gone lacking after apparently leaving a hospital in Hakodate, Hokkaido, the place he had been admitted for medical remedy, prompting prosecutors and police to seek for him.
The lacking man is Kiyoshi Okawa, an unemployed resident of Hakodate.
Okawa was indicted in July on a cost of tried homicide after allegedly putting his spouse a number of occasions within the head with a hammer.
According to prosecutors, Okawa had been detained at a facility in Hakodate however was admitted to Hakodate Central General Hospital on August 16 for remedy of an sickness.
He is believed to have gone lacking across the night of the identical day.
Prosecutors haven’t disclosed the circumstances below which Okawa left the hospital.
No new offenses involving Okawa have been confirmed to this point, prosecutors mentioned.
Prosecutors and police are persevering with efforts to find him.
Source: TBS