Express train hits 4 rail maintenance workers, 2 die

Express train hits 4 rail maintenance workers, 2 die

TOTTORI, Japan - Rescue workers try to save a maintenance worker stuck beneath a train in Kofu Town, Tottori Prerecture, on Jan. 24. An express train hit four West Japan Railway Co. workers engaged in rail maintenance work, killing two of them and injuring the other two.

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