Six people were arrested Tuesday for alleged professional negligence in connection with a fire that claimed 44 lives in an unsafe building in Tokyo's Kabukicho nightlife district in 2001.
The arrests mark the start of a full-fledged criminal negligence probe into the fifth-worst fire in terms of fatalities in postwar Japan.
Relatives of the dead plan to sue.
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