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Elderly couple killed while burning fallow rice paddy

OSHU, Iwate -- An elderly couple was burned to death after a fire they set to burn off dead grass on a rice field here got out of control, police said.

At around 8:30 p.m. on Friday, a local resident found farmer Keizo Ito, 82, and his 78-year-old wife Fukumi lying on the bank of a reservoir in Oshu. Police pronounced the couple dead at the scene, and concluded that they had been burned to death.

Investigators suspect that the couple died while burning off a fallow rice field they owned near the reservoir. The fire burned the rice field and the bank of the reservoir, totaling about 200 square meters. (Mainichi)