A 22-year-old shopping centre worker died in a suspected gas explosion in Japan after, her family say, she was instructed to go back into a damaged mall to secure the day's cash takings, just minutes after surviving a powerful earthquake.
Kurumi Ohtake had already escaped the initial July 28 quake and safely evacuated Aeon Mall Kumamoto in Kashima town. She was killed in a blast five minutes after returning inside to retrieve money from her general store's till, acting on what her relatives described as direct company instructions.
