A teenager was arrested Sunday on suspicion of killing her mother at a Tokyo condominium in Taito Ward in February.
Investigators suspect the 15-year-old high school student strangled her 41-year-old mother, who was sleeping on a sofa in the living room, between the night of Feb. 26 and the following evening.
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