3 Nepalese arrested for killing of Nepalese student in southwestern Japan

FUKUOKA - Three Nepalese nationals were arrested Tuesday in connection with the killing of a Nepalese vocational school student who was found dead in August in a river in the Tenjin district of the southwestern Japanese city of Fukuoka, police said.

The three -- identified as Sanju Tamang, 28, a vocational school student in Fukuoka, Asumita Tamang, 25, who lives in Tosu, Saga Prefecture, and Prabin Lama, 22, an international student residing in Tosu -- are suspected of killing Laxmi Rajbanshi, 25.