Police search Idemitsu Kosan over tank fires

SAPPORO, Japan - Police searched Idemitsu Kosan Co.'s oil refinery (shown) in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, on Oct. 4 on suspicion that a recent series of huge flammable liquid fires sparked by earthquakes was due to the company's negligence.

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