Reluctant groom sets hotel on fire
TOKYO: A Japanese man set fire to the hotel where he was due to get
married at the weekend, rather than go through with the ceremony later
the same day, newspaper reports said yesterday.
Tatsuhiko Kawata, 39, had gone along with wedding plans despite
already having a wife, Yomiuri the newspaper said. “I thought if I set a
fire I wouldn’t have to go through with the wedding,” the Yomiuri quoted
him as telling police.
Guests at the hotel were evacuated and no one was injured when he set
the fire in the early hours of Sunday morning at the resort hotel in
Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo. Kawata and his fiancee had been set
to get married before 80 guests. He was arrested after suddenly
cancelling the event and behaving suspiciously, the Yomiuri said.
Reuters
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