Around 30 workers were on site when the fire broke out at the facility in northern Niigata prefecture around midnight, local media reported. The cause of the fire is unclear.
“We confirmed the death of four women between 60s and 70s and we also found an unidentified body,” a police spokesman told AFP without giving further details. Public broadcaster NHK reported officers were working to identify the body as one of the two missing male workers, with another hospitalised but conscious after inhaling smoke.The factory is owned by Sanko Seika one of Japan’s biggest rice cracker manufacturers — and operates a production line to bake the popular snacks.In December, 25 people were killed in a blaze at a mental health clinic in Osaka.
A former patient of the clinic suspected of starting the fire died in the same month before police could interrogate him.
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