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		</div><p>Police have arrested a man suspected of starting a fire that killed 36 people in an animation studio in Japan.</p>
<p>Officers in Kyoto said Shinji Aoba, 42, was being detained on murder and arson allegations, 10 months after obtaining the warrant because they had to wait for him to recover.</p>
<p>He is accused of storming into Kyoto Animation’s No. 1 studio on July 18 last year with flammable liquid and setting it alight.</p>
<p>The attack, in which Aoba was injured, shocked Japan and drew an outpouring of grief from anime fans worldwide.</p>
<p>Police, quoting witnesses to the attack, have alleged Aoba entered the studio’s unlocked front door, where around 70 people were working.</p>
<p>One of the survivors, an animator, told Japanese media he jumped from a window of the three-storey building gasping for air amid scorching heat after seeing a “a black mushroom cloud” rising from downstairs.</p>
<p>Many others tried but failed to escape to the roof, fire officials said and many died of carbon monoxide poisoning.</p>
<p>Aoba sustained severe burns on his face, torso and limbs, and was unconscious for weeks.</p>
<p>He reportedly still cannot walk or feed himself without assistance.</p>
<p>Japanese television footage showed Aoba, his face scarred and eyebrows lost apparently from the fire, strapped to a stretcher as he was carried into a police station.</p>
<p>Police have said Aoba told them he set the fire because he thought “(Kyoto Animation) stole novels”.</p>
<p>Prosecutors are expected to seek formal criminal charges against him in a few weeks.</p>
<p>The fire was Japan’s deadliest since 2001, when an arson attack in Tokyo’s Kabukicho entertainment district killed 44 people.</p>
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