Police detain man who shouted 'die' as he poured petrol around the three-storey Kyoto Animation building.
A man shouted “die” as he doused an animation studio with fuel and set it ablaze in Japan today, public broadcaster NHK said, killing at least 33 people in the nation’s worst mass murder in nearly two decades.
Police detained a 41-year-old man who shouted “die” as he poured what appeared to be petrol around the three-storey Kyoto Animation building shortly after 10am local time, public broadcaster NHK reported. Shiro Misaki, a 47-year old owner of a neighbourhood bar five minutes from the studio, said he was driving nearby when he saw the thick smoke.
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