兵库县警方周三以涉嫌肢解并遗弃妻子尸体为由，逮捕了一名46岁的医生。
Hyogo Prefectural Police arrested a 46-year-old doctor on Wednesday on suspicion of dismembering and abandoning his wife’s body.
警方称，嫌疑人下村健二已承认指控，称是他"独自一人所为"。警方还在调查下村是否涉及谋杀其妻子真美（当时41岁）。
Police said the suspect, Kenji Shimomura, has admitted to the charges, saying he “did it all by himself.”Police are also investigating whether Shimomura was involved in the murder of his wife, Mami, who was 41 at the time.
据称，去年8月中下旬，下村在兵库县尼崎市的家中用刀肢解了妻子的尸体，并将其丢弃在附近的河流中。
Shimomura allegedly dismembered his wife’s body with a knife at their home in the city of Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, and disposed of it in a nearby river at some point in mid to late August last year.
据警方称，去年9月，下村曾向当地政府报案称妻子失踪，称两人曾发生争吵，此后他一直无法联系上妻子。然而，他后来供认在家中浴室肢解了妻子的尸体并将其丢入河中。
According to police, Shimomura had reported his wife as missing to local authorities in September last year, saying that they had had an argument and he had not been able to contact her since. However, he later confessed that he dismembered her corpse in the bathroom of their home and dumped it into the river.
根据他的供述，县警上月搜查了该河流，打捞出多块骨骼，经鉴定为下村真美的遗骸。死亡时间和死因仍不详。该案件是今年兵库县发生的几起备受关注的暴力犯罪案件之一。
Based on his statement, the prefectural police searched the river last month and recovered multiple bones, which were later identified as those of Mami Shimomura. The time and cause of death remain unknown. The case is one of a few high-profile violent crimes that have occurred in Hyogo Prefecture this year.
6月，神户市一名50岁女子因遗弃前夫尸体被捕，该尸体被锯成两半并存放在其公寓的冰柜中。神户检方随后以谋杀罪起诉该女子。
In June, a 50-year-old woman was arrested in Kobe for abandoning her former husband’s corpse, which had been bisected and stored in a freezer in her apartment. Kobe prosecutors later indicted the woman on murder charges regarding the husband.
同样在6月初，龙野市一条河流中发现了一名杀人嫌疑人的尸体。大山健二因5月在同市发生的一名74岁母亲及其52岁女儿被杀案件而被通缉。
Also earlier in June, the body of a murder suspect was found in a river in the city of Tatsuno. Kenji Oyama had been the subject of a search following the murders of a 74-year-old mother and her 52-year-old daughter in the same city in May.