By RIA Novosti,
TOKYO : Japanese police arrested on Monday a Pakistani man in connection with the killing of a Russian woman on Japan’s largest island of Honshu, local media said.
Anastasia Korpachyova, 23, was stabbed twice in her neck by her attacker on Friday in Soka, in the Saitama prefecture, before he pushed her into a river. The woman was pulled out by a passersby who saw the incident but she died later in hospital.
Just an hour before the attack Korpachyova, the wife of a 57-year-old Japanese national, filed a complaint to police saying that she was being stalked by a Pakistani man near her home. Police said she had been involved in a row with her attacker before she was killed.
The Pakistani man, Mohammad Alam, 38, was arrested by police in his car near a supermarket on Monday. He said he had been dating Korpachyova and, according to Japanese media, as good as confessed to the murder.