12th anniversary of fatal Shiga train collision marked

12th anniversary of fatal Shiga train collision marked

OTSU, Japan - A member of bereaved families offers her prayer in a memorial service held in Shiga Prefecture on May 14 to mark the 12th anniversary of a fatal 1991 train collision that killed 42 people and injured more than 600. In the accident, a JR West train crashed head-on with a Shigaraki Kogen Railway train on a single-track railway. (Kyodo)

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