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From the Telegraph, London (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...an17.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/09/17/ixworld.html):
Three die as worker blows up office
By Colin Joyce in Tokyo
(Filed: 17/09/2003)
A Japanese delivery driver demanding back pay from his employers blew up their office yesterday, killing himself and two other people.
Noboru Beppu, 52, marched into the Keikyubin delivery firm in Nagoya, central Japan, armed with a knife, a crossbow and two cans of petrol.
Demanding three months' back pay, he doused the office with the fuel and barricaded the door, taking about 30 people hostage.
A man hangs from the window of the Keikyubin office building in Nagoya after the explosion yesterday
Most were freed during a three-hour siege which ended with Beppu reportedly setting the petrol alight.
Beppu, a policeman and the 42-year-old branch manager were killed as an explosion ripped through the building, showering glass over a wide area.
About 40 policemen and firemen were injured, four of them seriously. Beppu was demanding £1,300 in wages for the months of July to September. The money was said to have been paid about an hour before the blast.
Police are investigating whether he intended to commit suicide from the start.
Three die as worker blows up office
By Colin Joyce in Tokyo
(Filed: 17/09/2003)
A Japanese delivery driver demanding back pay from his employers blew up their office yesterday, killing himself and two other people.
Noboru Beppu, 52, marched into the Keikyubin delivery firm in Nagoya, central Japan, armed with a knife, a crossbow and two cans of petrol.
Demanding three months' back pay, he doused the office with the fuel and barricaded the door, taking about 30 people hostage.
A man hangs from the window of the Keikyubin office building in Nagoya after the explosion yesterday
Most were freed during a three-hour siege which ended with Beppu reportedly setting the petrol alight.
Beppu, a policeman and the 42-year-old branch manager were killed as an explosion ripped through the building, showering glass over a wide area.
About 40 policemen and firemen were injured, four of them seriously. Beppu was demanding £1,300 in wages for the months of July to September. The money was said to have been paid about an hour before the blast.
Police are investigating whether he intended to commit suicide from the start.