Jul 29, Kathmandu- Local media reported that three people from the same family were stabbed to death in central Japan's Shizuoka province on Sunday.

At 2:25 pm local time on Sunday, the police received information that a person was running erratically in a house in a residential area of Kikugawa city.

When police officers arrived at the house, they found 87-year-old Shoichi Shibuya, his wife Ikuko, 81, and their 52-year-old daughter Rumiko with stab wounds.

They were immediately taken to the hospital for treatment, but the doctors declared them dead.

Police said that a 20-year-old man, believed to be a relative of the deceased, is absconding and is being searched on suspicion of murder.