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Posted 30 June 2015 - 12:38 AM

The Verge, 6/30/15:


Two feared dead after passenger self-immolates on Japanese bullet train

 

Japanese media are reporting that two people are feared dead after an apparent act of self-immolation on a bullet train. "We have been informed that there was a passenger in a car on the train who covered him or herself with oil and set it on fire," a spokesperson for Japan Rail told AFP. A man and a woman are dead, with around 20 others injured, NHK reportsTBS has footage of passengers evacuating the smoke-filled carriage.

 

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Posted 30 June 2015 - 12:39 AM

BBC News, 6/30/15:

 


Japan bullet train passenger starts fire injuring eight

 

At least eight people have been injured, two seriously, after a man set himself on fire on a Shinkansen bullet train in Japan, say officials.

 

The man had poured oil over himself in the first carriage of the train, a Japan Rail spokesman told the BBC.

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