TOKYO: Japanese police on Wednesday formally arrested a man on suspicion of an arson attack on an animation studio in the city of Kyoto last year that killed 36 people, a police spokesman said. […]
Japanese police on Wednesday formally arrested a man on suspicion of an arson attack on an animation studio in the city of Kyoto last year that killed 36 people, a police spokesman said.
The arrest came 10 months after the attack on the Kyoto Animation studio, which also injured dozens of people. Aoba was detained by police shortly after the blaze. He was found with serious burns and taken to hospital. He was reportedly unconscious for weeks. Aoba allegedly “broke into the studio, scattered gasoline on the ground floor, set fire to it and killed 36 people” — 14 men and 22 women, the police spokesman said.
The horrifying attack on the well-known anime studio was the deadliest violent crime in decades in famously safe Japan and shocked the country. Many of those killed in the blaze were young, including a 21-year-old woman.
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