No More Indoor Pools For Yubari
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The Yubari Swimming Center is run by a city-affiliated body that had not shoveled snow off the roof due to its financial difficulties since December 2006.
No one was injured as the facility had been temporarily closed.
The former coal-mining city, with a population of around 12,500, went effectively bankrupt last March when it applied for status as a special fiscal rehabilitation entity.
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The municipal government has already closed four other indoor and outdoor pools due to its financial problems, and the latest loss could affect gym classes at elementary schools, the officials said.
“We have no prospect of rebuilding” the facility, a city official said.
