Japan Mall Explosion Worker Deaths
A manager encouraged two employees who perished in a shopping center explosion that followed a strong earthquake in Japan last week to return to the building in order to get money.
Habita, a general goods business, has expressed regret for the “loss of two precious lives” on behalf of their employees.
The magnitude 6.8 earthquake that struck Kumamoto prefecture on July 28 claimed the lives of 38 people, including the two. Aeon Mall accounted for seven of the deaths.
Goji Yuse, the director of sales at Habita, stated, “The instructions given at the time were inappropriate, and I truly regret them,” according to NHK.
Kurumi Otake, 22, is one of the two employees. The other dead employee’s identity has not been disclosed.
Following the earthquake, Otake ran into a relative outside the Aeon Mall, her family informed local media.
Two corporate personnel who attended Otake’s wake on Sunday and expressed regret to her family attested to this.
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According to NHK, he also stated that the business was thinking about how to handle the situation.According to Kyodo, Yuse told reporters at the wake, “Looking back, it was not worth a life.“
Otake was characterized as having a “strong sense of justice” by her relative. According to Asahi Shimbun. She had helped her mother when her father passed away three years prior.
Kurumi would still be with her family today if she hadn’t returned inside the store at that moment,” the relative stated.
An explosion tore through the Aeon mall approximately an hour after the earthquake, even though the majority of people had left the facility.
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