On the 17th, a clinic entering a building in Kita-ku, Osaka was set on fire, killing 24 people, and a security camera showed a 61-year-old suspect igniting a flammable liquid he brought in with a lighter. I found out from an interview with the investigators that it was.
Police are investigating the details of the situation at the time.
On the 17th, a clinic in the Department of Psychiatric Medicine on the 4th floor of a building in Sonezakishinchi, Kita-ku, Osaka was set on fire, killing 24 people. It was announced that it was Mr. Morio Tanimoto (61).
According to police, Tanimoto is in a serious condition at the hospital where he was taken.
According to investigators, the suspect brought a paper bag to the clinic, placed it on the floor and kicked it down, and then the flammable liquid leaked from the bag was seen burning up, but the security camera showed it. At that time, it was like a lighter igniting a fire.
Immediately after the fire broke out, it is known that the security camera also showed the suspect standing in front of the doorway with his arms open.
A very small amount of unburned oil was detected near the doorway of the scene, and police are investigating the detailed situation at that time on suspicion of murder and arson.
A bicycle that seems to have been riding in front of the building
In front of the building at the fire site, a bicycle that Tanimoto was supposed to be riding was parked.
According to investigators, Tanimoto is believed to have lit a fire by visiting the site on this bicycle from the house of the person concerned.
Police have confiscated the bike and are investigating the suspect's footsteps.
A friend of the deceased "It's so sudden ..."
A man in his 40s, who is a friend of the person who died in the incident, visited the scene on the 19th, handed flowers, and then quietly joined hands.
According to the man, the deceased friend often joked, had a bright personality, and was loved by his friends.
I still have friends, and this is because the spread of the new coronavirus has subsided, so I was planning to hold a year-end party for the first time in a few years.
The man said, "It was so sudden that I didn't feel it at all, I was a close friend, but I still don't feel sad. It's true that he was involved in a big incident, but for us, It's just that my dear friend has died. "
On top of that, he said in a few words, "I only want to feel that I should have been better friends while he was alive, and that I should have been more kind to him."
Reveal the identities of eight people, including the director of the police clinic
Police revealed the names of six of them on the 18th in a fire that killed 24 people, but on the night of the 19th, men and women aged 28 to 59 who newly live in Osaka, Hyogo, and Nara prefectures 8 Revealed the name of the person.
One of them is Kotaro Nishizawa (49), a doctor who is the director of the clinic in the field and lives in Matsubara City, Osaka.
Kotaro Nishizawa, who was the director of the clinic
Kotaro Nishizawa (49), a doctor who was confirmed dead, was the director of the "Worker's Nishi Umeda Mind and Body Clinic" where the fire broke out.
According to the website, the clinic specializes in psychosomatic medicine and psychiatry, and Mr. Nishizawa opened in October 2015, six years ago, so that people returning from work can see the clinic even at night, four days a week in the afternoon. I was accepting medical treatment until 10 o'clock.
We also conducted a rehabilitation program called the "Rework Program" four times a week to help people who took leave due to mental illness.
A person who went to the clinic said about Mr. Nishizawa, "I felt that he was a kind teacher who was close to the patient and treated me," and "I was able to get well thanks to the doctor's examination."
Keita Suzuki, the representative of a company that has acquaintance with Mr. Nishizawa and provides welfare support to people with developmental disabilities, said, "The teacher is a straightforward person, not great, and really low-profile. Why is the teacher? I think it's a clinic. "