(1)Gangster, girlfriend kill selves as police storm condo

(1)Gangster, girlfriend kill selves as police storm condo

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Policemen take their positions as their colleagues storm a condominium in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, where a gangster had holed himself up with his girlfriend for 44 hours early on the morning of May 20. Police found the couple shot dead in an apparent double suicide.

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