A TRAIN derailed in Japan today, sending a carriage into a block of flats in the nation's deadliest rail accident in 42 years.
AT least 50 people were killed and more than 400 injured when a commuter train derailed in western Japan today, sending a carriage hurtling into an apartment block in the nation's deadliest rail accident in four decades.
"We have confirmed the deaths of 25 males and 24 females. We are yet to identify the gender of one body," a spokesman for the fire department in Amagasaki said. A spokesman for Hyogo prefecture police said 417 people had been injured. …