Police in Osaka Prefecture have found a 50-year-old Russian woman dead, Kyodo reports.
Law enforcement agencies received a report of a resident of an apartment building found covered in blood. It turned out that this was Russian citizen Elena Ito. There were signs of beating and bruises on her face. Law enforcement officials suggest that the woman may have been murdered.
She lived alone in an apartment on the eighth floor. The deceased's husband, also a Russian citizen, contacted the police through friends and arrived at his wife's home after failing to contact her for several days.