TOKYO (AFP) - Two people were feared dead on Tuesday after an apparent suicide attempt on board a moving shinkansen bullet train in Japan, a spokesman for the rail operator told AFP.
“We have been informed that there was a passenger in a carriage on the train who covered him or herself with oil and set it on fire,” said a JR Central spokesman.
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