AEON SAYS STAFF WERE ALLOWED TO REENTER QUAKE-HIT MALL DESPITE BAN BEFORE BLAST - TOKYO JAPAN

AEON SAYS STAFF WERE ALLOWED TO REENTER QUAKE-HIT MALL DESPITE BAN BEFORE BLAST - TOKYO JAPAN   

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TOKYO

Major Japanese retailer Aeon Co said Tuesday that employees were allowed to reenter a quake-hit shopping mall in Kumamoto Prefecture despite a company rule barring evacuees from doing so, and seven workers were subsequently killed in a blast at the facility in late July.

The retailer said on-site personnel at Aeon Mall Kumamoto in Kashima allowed employees to reenter after they asked to retrieve valuables such as car keys and mobile phones and to close cash registers following the powerful earthquake.

The magnitude-7.1 quake, which registered the maximum level of 7 on Japan's seismic intensity scale in some areas in the southwestern prefecture on July 28, left some employees who commuted by car unable to return home.

Aeon said its rules and drills had not covered post-evacuation cases involving personal belongings or employees unable to leave after commuting by car, adding that the absence of procedures left such decisions to on-site personnel.

The retail giant said it will revise its rules to allow employees to keep valuables with them while working. Aeon President Akio Yoshida said at a press conference on July 29 that internal rules barred evacuees from reentering buildings.

The explosion at the shopping mall occurred at around 5:50 p.m., about 1 hour and 20 minutes after the devastating earthquake.

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