A 31-year-old suspect was arrested for mutilating the physique of a 70-year-old male acquaintance and abandoning it within the ocean at a home in Saeki Ward, Hiroshima City. Police say they hit the person within the face with a rock-like object. He was arrested once more on suspicion of homicide. In response to the investigation, he reportedly said, “There is little doubt that I hit him, however I didn’t kill him.”