The charred corpses of two men, both with knife wounds, were found Monday morning after a fire broke out in a building in Minato Ward, Tokyo, leading police to investigate the case as a possible murder-arson.
The fire broke out at around 7:40 a.m. in the fourth-floor accounting office of financial and commodities futures dealer Ace International Inc., the Tokyo Fire Department said.
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