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The Vice Mayor of Saijo at the Japanese Ehime Prefecture, Akihiro Nabal, is dead, the world is over and crushed by Mikoshi or a giant float at the Kakurabe Festival on Saturday (17 / 10) ago.

Japan Times reports the incident occurred around 5: 45 PM local time at the port of the Ehime Prefecture River.

She's one of those people who picked up a giant stretcher with the participants. According to the police, he was trapped under a stretcher when the palanquin was taken to the hospital but died an hour later.

Saijo police deputy director, Makoto Hagiyama, said his side is still investigating whether the giant palanquin that Nabal took down or the official lost his balance when the incident occurred.

The palanquin which Nabal raised himself has about three tons of weight.

The Kakekurabe Festival is a competition tradition of lifting bouquets. On his official website, the city's government described the festival as a grand and festive celebration with a garland of planks carved like flowers, birds and warriors.

This tradition came from the days of Edo in Japan (1603- 1868) and was held as a thank-you to the gods for the abundant grain harvest.

Last week, two people were also reported dead in two separate festivals in the western Osaka region. The herding palanquin that the participants brought down when they tried to perform a high-speed maneuver.