Police raid Kansai Electric office over nuke plant disaster

Police raid Kansai Electric office over nuke plant disaster

TSURUGA, Japan - Police raid Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Wakasa branch office in Fukui Prefecture on Sept. 28 as part of investigations into a deadly nuclear power plant accident in August. Prefectural police investigators entered the office in Mihama, which oversees operations at the company's 11 nuclear reactors in the prefecture. Five workers were killed in the accident.

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