Police have arrested five people over an incident in which a man was found dead in a suitcase in Tama River last December, including an ex-girlfriend of the victim, investigative sources said on Sunday.
The former girlfriend, 32-year-old Mai Nishitaka, and four others, including her relatives, were arrested by Kanagawa Prefectural Police for allegedly abandoning the body found in the river in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
The man, Tadayuki Hara, then 46, is believed to have been strangled, and prefectural police are investigating the circumstances that led to the incident.
