This screen grab taken from video provided by Japanese broadcaster TBS shows the smoldering interior of a bullet train, or "shinkansen", carriage after a fire caused by a suicide stopped the train near Odawara on June 30, 2015. - AFP/TBS
TOKYO, July 1, 2015 (AFP) - A woman killed when a pensioner deliberately set himself on fire aboard a moving bullet train in Japan was on her way to a shrine to give thanks for her "peaceful life", it emerged Wednesday.
Yoshiko Kuwahara died after 71-year-old Haruo Hayashizaki doused himself in fuel and sparked the blaze on the busy 300-kilometre (185-mile)-per-hour train.
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