Overview
- Fire broke out around midnight on Jan. 4 in a single‑story row unit of Tsushima’s city‑run housing, and crews extinguished it about 2 hours 40 minutes later.
- Two bodies were recovered from the room believed to be the origin, and police have been unable to contact the unit’s 81-year-old resident and his wife in her 80s.
- A neighbor in her 70s reported the alarm after hearing a detector sounding in the same building.
- In separate incidents early Jan. 4 in Osaka Prefecture, one person was found dead in a burned apartment and two residents were hospitalized for suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in Kadoma.
- Police in Ibaraki said an 89-year-old man and his 82-year-old wife died after a Jan. 2 house fire in Toride, and an electrical appliance is a possible cause under examination.