NIIGATA – Three people have been found dead after a fire engulfed a house in the city of Niigata, with police investigating the case as a possible group arson-suicide.
According to the police, there were slash wounds on all three bodies found inside the locked house, and nothing to indicate an intruder around the time of the fire early Friday.
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