Ex-police official indicted over stampede under new inquest system

Ex-police official indicted over stampede under new inquest system

OSAKA, Japan - Kazuaki Sakaki (file photo), former deputy chief of the Akashi Police Station, is indicted on April 20, 2010, for allegedly failing to prevent a fatal stampede in 2001 in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, becoming the first person to be brought to trial under a new prosecution inquest system.

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