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Aeon Mall Explosion a 'Man-Made Disaster'
['News On Japan']
News On Japan
Kumamoto - The family of a 22-year-old cosmetics store employee killed in the explosion at Aeon Mall Kumamoto said she had safely evacuated after the powerful earthquake but returned to the building under instructions from her company, calling her death a "man-made disaster."
The team traveled to evacuation centers in Yatsushiro, where water supplies remained disrupted.
Attention has also focused on the explosion at Aeon Mall Kumamoto, where seven people were killed after the earthquake.
Otake had successfully evacuated from the mall after the earthquake and had contacted her family to say she was safe.
According to her family, Otake happened to meet an aunt who was shopping at the mall.