The collapse of a concrete block wall which killed a 9-year-old girl in quake-hit Osaka may have resulted from a lack of required safety inspections in recent years, a senior local education board official said Friday."We cannot deny the possibility that (her death) was a man-made tragedy," Toru Hirano of the Takatsuki education board said at a press conference.The magnitude-6.1 quake which rocked western Japan on Monday registered lower 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7, leaving five people dead in Osaka Prefecture and over 400 injured in seven prefectures.The education board …READ FULL ARTICLE
