Police launch full-scale probe into deadly train crash

Police launch full-scale probe into deadly train crash

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Police officers investigate a wrecked JR West train in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on April 29. At least 106 people were killed and over 460 others injured in Japan's fourth-worst postwar railway accident.

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