Police search Paloma over fatal emissions from gas heaters

NAGOYA, Japan - Investigators from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department carry cardboard boxes out of the head office of Paloma Co. in Nagoya on Jan. 27 after searching it on suspicion of negligence in the death of a man and injury of his brother due to carbon monoxide emissions from a Paloma-brand gas-powered water heater in Tokyo in 2005. (Kyodo)

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