A man prays for victims in front of an office building, where a fire broke out the previous day, in Osaka on Saturday, December 18, 2021. - AFP
OSAKA, Dec 18 (AP): Japanese police on Saturday searched the house of one of the patients at a mental clinic where a fire gutted an entire floor in an eight-story building, killing 24 people trapped inside.
An Osaka police investigator told The Associated Press that the man is a possible suspect. A small fire broke out about half an hour before the building fire at the man's house, where a patient registration card was found, the investigator said.
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