{"id":179270,"date":"2026-08-21T11:06:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=179270&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2026-08-21T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:06:56","slug":"fukuoka-police-probe-nepali-students-death-as-murder","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-police-probe-nepali-students-death-as-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Police Probe Nepali Student&#8217;s Death as Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police identified the woman found in the Naka River in Tenjin on August 19 as Laxmi Rajbanshi, a 25-year-old Nepali vocational school student. An autopsy did not establish the cause of death, but investigators found multiple head injuries believed to have been caused by a blunt object. Blood and signs of a struggle were discovered at her home, about two kilometers from where her body was found. Rajbanshi was last seen leaving work alone by bicycle at around 10:30 p.m. on August 18. An acquaintance reported her missing roughly four and a half hours later. Police formed a 70-member investigation team and are treating the case as murder. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsdig.tbs.co.jp\/articles\/rkb\/2885236?display=1\" target=\"_blank\">RKB News<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fnn.jp\/articles\/-\/1098238\" target=\"_blank\">TNC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fnn_nepali-student-death-as-murder_2026_cl.jpg?resize=1344%2C748&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1344\" height=\"748\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-179271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fnn_nepali-student-death-as-murder_2026_cl.jpg?w=1344&amp;ssl=1 1344w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fnn_nepali-student-death-as-murder_2026_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fnn_nepali-student-death-as-murder_2026_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C570&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fnn_nepali-student-death-as-murder_2026_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C427&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\nPhoto: RKB News<\/p>\n<p>Get Fukuoka and Kyushu\u2019s top stories delivered to your inbox. The Now is Fukuoka Now\u2019s free biweekly newsletter featuring local news, events, culture, business, and community updates in English. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\">Subscribe to The Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summaries based on public content, errors may occur during translation. Images credited independently. Send feedback using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\">this <strong>form<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police identified the woman found in the Naka River in Tenjin on August 19 as Laxmi Rajbanshi, a 25-year-old Nepali vocational school student. An autopsy did not establish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30292,"featured_media":179271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-179270","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-chuo-ku","location-fukuoka-city","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/179270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}