HOKKAIDO (TR) – Hokkaido Prefectural Police are investigating what’s believed to be an arson case after 4 individuals had been injured in a fireplace that erupted inside a specialty hostess membership in Sapporo Metropolis on Tuesday.
At 3:18 p.m., an explosion got here from a six-floor constructing contained in the Susukino red-light district. The next fireplace tore via the second and third flooring.
Hearth fighters later extinguished the blaze.
The origin of the fireplace was a so-called “lady’s bar” positioned on the second ground. Such a enterprise is licensed as an consuming and consuming institution (inshokuten) however gives providers near these of a hostess membership.
One witness advised TBS Information (Nov. 27), “When one lady got here out of the shop together with her ft on fireplace, about three males had been serving to to place out the fireplace with a big curtain-like fabric.”
The lady, aged in her 20s, and three males of their 30s, 40s, and 50s had been taken to the hospital with burns throughout their our bodies. One of many males in his 40s was unconscious when he was taken to the hospital.
In keeping with sources, the person in his 40s introduced a gasoline-like liquid into the shop, scattered it across the retailer, and set it on fireplace utilizing one thing that appeared like a lighter.
Police plan to attend till the person in his 40s recovers earlier than questioning him.
