OTOMO no Takera was arrested on suspicion of assassination first, and after an investigation, more than a dozen people including OTOMO no Tsuguhito and SAEGI Takanari were captured and decapitated.
暗殺犯として大伴竹良らがまず逮捕され、取調べの末大伴継人・佐伯高成ら十数名が捕縛されて首を斬られた。