TOKYO: Investigators in Japan have arrested a tourist from New York in connection with the discovery of a human head and other body parts that were found during a search for a missing Japanese woman, officials said. The Japan Times reported that he had admitted to disposing of her body, and it quoted investigators as saying that her head, found in a suitcase in short-term private lodging, had been cut by a knife. The Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported that the man had traveled to Japan several times before and was in the country for sightseeing. Bayraktar, who arrived in Japan in January, was arrested Thursday on charges of confining the woman against her will. During an interrogation by the police, he told them he had abandoned the woman’s body, The Japan Times reported.

Source: New Strait Times February 27, 2018 22:52 UTC