当地时间7月18日上午10点35分左右，日本京都市“119”接到市民电话称，动画制作公司“京都动画”（总部在京都府宇治市）位于该市伏见区的工作室“冒出黑烟”。京都府警方称，火灾原因为人为纵火，嫌疑人是一名41岁的男子。据NHK报道，目前火灾已经造成33人死亡，36人受伤。

嫌疑人四处泼洒像是汽油的液体并点燃，并大叫着“去死吧”。幸存者还透露，这个男子不是他们的同事，很多人的身上也被溅上了液体。

京都动画一直被称作为业界良心。制作的人气作品有《凉宫春日的忧郁》、《CLANNAD》、《轻音少女》、《Free！》、《吹响！上低音号》、《紫罗兰永恒花园》等。

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本警方称，上午10:30左右大火开始燃烧时，大约有70人在京都动画(Kyoto Animation)的办公室里。

About 70 people were inside the offices of Kyoto Animation when the blaze started at about 10:30 a.m., the police said.

Kyoto Animation studio fire: at least 33 dead after arson attack in Japan

Dozens more injured after ‘man threw liquid and set fire’ to building, police say

An arson attack on an anime studio in Japan has left at least 33 people dead and dozens injured in Japan’s worst mass murder in nearly two decades.

The perpetrator, who was also injured and has been taken into police custody, walked into the 1st Studio building of Kyoto Animation in Fujimi ward, Kyoto, at about 10.30am. He poured what is suspected to be petrol in multiple areas of the building before igniting it.

arson attack 纵火案

mass murder 大屠杀；大规模的谋杀；集体屠杀

perpetrator 犯罪者；行凶者；作恶者

take into custody 拘捕；拘押；收押

petrol 汽油

The prime minister, Shinzo Abe, called the attack “too appalling for words” and offered condolences.

offer condolences 表示慰问

There were more than 70 people in the building, which is Kyoto Animation’s main studio.

About 30 fire engines and ambulances went to the three-storey building after an explosion. Victims were taken to various hospitals in Kyoto.

The suspect, identified only as a 41-year-old male, was reportedly taken to hospital before being arrested by police, who said he had admitted starting the fire.

No motive for the arson attack has been reported, but Japan’s public broadcaster said he had shouted “drop dead” as he set the petrol alight.

Preliminary investigations by the police have uncovered no links between the subject, who has yet to be named, and the animation studio.

“A man threw liquid and set fire to it,” said a Kyoto prefectural police spokesman.

Emergency calls to the city fire department reported there had been an explosion on the ground floor, while later calls included people shouting: “Help us, the fire is climbing.”

Images shot from a helicopter for NHK showed smoke billowing from the top floor and fire crews still battling the blaze of the badly damaged building hours after it had started. Fire crews said there might be more people left in the building.

The fire department said the three floors of the building covered a total of 700 sq metres and that every storey had been damaged by the fire.

Professor Yuji Hasemi, an expert in fire safety and materials at Tokyo’s Waseda University, told NHK that a combination of poor ventilation, an abundance of paper used by artists and the large amount of petrol likely caused the fire to spread too quickly for people to escape. No fire escape stairs were visible in images of the building.

ventilation 通风设备；空气流通

Violent crime is rare in Japan, though it is not unknown. In July 2016, a mass stabbing at a care home by a former employee killed 16 and injured more. In September 2001, a fire at a building in the Kabukicho entertainment district of central Tokyo killed 44. Arson was suspected, but nobody was ever charged, meaning the Kyoto Animation attack is the worst confirmed mass murder in Japan’s post-war history.

Japanese Post-War History 日本战后史

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