Aeon Considering Compensation over Fatal Blast After Kumamoto Quake
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2 killed in blast were told to return to mall | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
TOKYO >> Two store employees who died in the explosion July 28 at the Aeon Mall Kumamoto shopping complex were directed by the store’s company to go back inside the mall after the earthquake to move its cash into a safe.
The explosion at Aeon Mall Kumamoto (Kashima-machi, Kumamoto Prefecture) following the Kumamoto earthquake claimed the lives of seven employees of tenant stores, highlighting the challenge of protecting workers from secondary disasters. The issue of re-entering a building after evacuation…
It was revealed on the 12th that several employees of Aeon and Aeon Mall allowed employees to temporarily re-enter the Aeon Mall Kumamoto after the explosion, even though the facility's safety checks had not yet been completed at the time.
Regarding the incident in which seven tenant employees died after re-entering the Aeon Mall Kumamoto (Kashima-machi, Kumamoto Prefecture) following an explosion, Aeon announced on the 12th that it would "address compensation (to the bereaved families) promptly, without waiting for the cause of the accident or legal responsibility to be clarified."
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