In what will come across as a really shocking development, a woman is being said to have murdered her own kids.
Police seal off a house in Sue, Fukuoka Prefecture, where four children were found dead.
Junko Fuchi, a 41-year-old mother in Sue, Fukuoka Prefecture, in Japan has been arrested by police.
The woman was arrested Monday for allegedly killing her four children, who were found dead in their home.
According to The Japan Times, the police said they were questioning Junko Fuchi as the suspect in a possible murder-suicide attempt.
The children’s father, identified as construction worker Masao Fuchi, 39, made the emergency call to the police.
The dead were identified as the couple’s son, Shunsuke, 10, and daughters, Miyu and Mina, both 6, and Mio, 3.
“Their father found them dead and reported it to police,” a police spokesman said without providing further details.
According to TV Asahi, Junko Fuchi confessed to the police she had killed the children.
The police were reported as saying at least one child bore marks indicating strangulation.
Media reports show that Junko Fuchi was taken to a hospital because her wrist was bleeding. She allegedly told the police she cut herself with a kitchen knife.
According to the police, she made emergency calls to police on Friday and Saturday asking for “advice about family issues,” but the police judged her request was “incomprehensible.”
A police officer visited her at the family’s home on Friday to talk to her but did not visit again on Saturday after she contacted police and said the issues were resolved.