Ogawa, now 51, went to a makeshift mortuary set up in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, and waited. It took about a week for the rescue team to find all three of the bodies. “I got so tense.

Fujioka residents have complained about raccoons ... The Ota city government in Gunma Prefecture decided to do away with drowning in fiscal 2017 and started using suffocation by carbon dioxide.

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