Two suicide deaths in Japan’s bullet train

Two people are reported to have died and many others injured following an apparent suicide bid in a bullet train in Japan – the dead are a man is his 70s and a woman. Another at least nine passengers had to be treated for smoke inhalation.
The man had doused himself in flammable liquid and lit a cigarette lighter to set the fire – at the time, the train was speeding through the Japanese countryside at up to 300km per hour.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 30 June 2015.

The train was a super-fast Nozomi bullet train and it was going from Tokyo towards Osaka when the fire broke out near Odawara, west of Tokyo.
It seems there was a blast heard from a toilet at the front of the train and the first carriage filled with smoke which led to one of the passengers to press the emergency stop button. Subsequently, it was known about the incident.
Two people died in the fire. The dead bodies were lying on the floor of the front car, but at opposite ends of the carriage – the man was aged 71, and there was also a woman. Apart from them, one man is believed to be in a serious condition in hospital, three others are badly hurt and around 20 were treated for smoke inhalation.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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