Investigators raided a power utility company yesterday as police stepped up a criminal investigation into the company's role in Japan's worst-ever nuclear plant accident, which killed five people last month.
About 120 officials raided a branch of Kansai Electric Power, which is being investigated on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death and injury in the Aug. 9 accident at its Mihama nuclear power plant, Tsuruga city police spokesman Shuichi Nosaka said.
Five people died when a corroded pipe ruptured, spraying plant workers with boiling water and steam. Six others were injured. No radiation leaked from the reactor.
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