A body of a headless cat has been found on a farm in the city of Saitama, in what appears to be part of a series of animal abuse cases seen in the city since earlier this month, police have said.
Police received an emergency call from a farmer in his 30s on Sunday morning saying that he had found the body of a cat with its head severed. The cat did not have a head or arms and its body was half buried, police said.
Later on Sunday, a woman reported that she had found what appeared to be the upper body of a cat on a road about 300 meters away from the farm. Police said it was a cat's head and arms, which they believed were from the same animal as the one found on the farm.
In Saitama, bodies of cats were found in three places, including a park and an elementary school, earlier this month. Police are looking into a possible connection between these cases and the latest case, and are investigating them as a possible violation of the animal protection law.