Police on Sunday again searched a Tokyo company in charge of maintenance of a Swiss-made elevator in which a teenager was killed in an accident in 2006.
The police suspect the accident was the result of a worker at SEC Elevator Co. overlooking an abnormality involving the elevator’s brake system during an inspection, investigative sources said.
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