TOKYO: A man shouted 'die' as he doused an animation studio with fuel and set it ablaze in Japan yesterday, public broadcaster NHK said, killing at least 33 people in the nation's worst mass murder in nearly two decades. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called the...
"Policemen were stopping traffic, and it was really hazy with smoke," he said."Even after I got back to my restaurant, I could smell the smoke.""Today, many people were killed and wounded in an arson murder case in Kyoto," he said in a post on Twitter.Some of the victims were found in the studio, some on the third storey and others in a staircase leading up to the roof, the fire official said. Another 36 were injured, 10 of them seriously, the official said.
The suspected arsonist was injured and was being treated in hospital, so police could not question him, NHK said.Its Free! Road To The World - The Dream movie is due for release this month."It in unbearable that the people who helped carry Japan's animation industry were hurt and lost their lives in this way."Many posted with the hashtag #PrayForKyoani - using an abbreviation for Kyoto Animation.
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