TOKYO, Sep 26 (News On Japan) –
A 60-year-old man was crushed to dying on Monday underneath a shrine he was demolishing in Kakogawa City, Hyogo Prefecture.
Around 7:30 PM, a report got here in from the Atago Shrine in Kakogawa City, stating {that a} man is perhaps trapped underneath the shrine constructing.
Police and firefighters arrived on the scene to search out the physique of firm worker Yasumi Ishimi (60) trapped underneath the shrine’s constructing. Ishimi was taken to hospital and later confirmed lifeless.
According to police, the primary deity of the Atago Shrine had been amalgamated with one other close by shrine, and the demolition of the constructing was in progress.
Ishimi was a former carpenter and had beforehand served because the consultant of the shrine’s parishioners at Atago Shrine. The police suspect that he was working alone when the shrine constructing collapsed and are investigating the main points of the incident.
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