Company president says many of the victims were young women, some who had just begun work at Kyoto Animation in March; suspect was imprisoned for robbery and had recently threatened neighbor.
died overnight Friday in hospital, taking the death toll to 34, with another 34 still in hospital. Among the dead, 26 victims were in their 20s and 30s, public broadcaster NHK reported Saturday.
Kyoto Animation is known in the anime industry for treating its staff well. The average age of its employees was 34. Nobody appeared to have made it to the roof and more than half the bodies were found on the upper floor and stairs. It is still unclear whether the door to the roof was locked, Hiroyuki Sakai, deputy police chief of the Fushimi district, toldBecause of the size of the building, it was not required to have sprinklers installed, which might have slowed the spread of the fire. It had passed a safety inspection in October.
"There were three people outside that I saw had come out of the building. They were on fire; their clothes and hair were burning," said Keiyu, whose family looks after and lives at the nearby Daizenji Rokujizoson Buddhist temple. "After a while, I couldn’t bear to look, so we went back to the temple. Some people from the neighborhood came with us; they thought there might be another explosion.
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