Piece of mortar found on Sanyo Shikansen tracks

Piece of mortar found on Sanyo Shikansen tracks

OGORI, Japan - Photo shows an 8-kilogram piece of mortar found Dec. 1 on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line bullet-train tracks inside a tunnel in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Tunnel inspectors found the fragment, which had apparently fallen from a 3-meter-high wall in the tunnel between Shin-Shimonoseki and Asa stations. No accidents were reported immediately.

Piece of mortar found on Sanyo Shikansen tracks

Piece of mortar found on Sanyo Shikansen tracks

OGORI, Japan - Photo shows an 8-kilogram piece of mortar found Dec. 1 on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line bullet-train tracks inside a tunnel in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Tunnel inspectors found the fragment, which had apparently fallen from a 3-meter-high wall in the tunnel between Shin-Shimonoseki and Asa stations. No accidents were reported immediately. (Kyodo)

Shinkansen bullet train kills man on tracks

Shinkansen bullet train kills man on tracks

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on June 14, 2018, shows a Nozomi shinkansen bullet train with cracks on its bonnet at JR Shin-Shimonoseki Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan. The train hit and killed a man on the tracks between Hakata and Kokura stations in Fukuoka Prefecture earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Shinkansen bullet train kills man on tracks

Shinkansen bullet train kills man on tracks

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on June 14, 2018, shows a Nozomi shinkansen bullet train with cracks on its bonnet at JR Shin-Shimonoseki Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan. The train hit and killed a man on the tracks between Hakata and Kokura stations in Fukuoka Prefecture earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Shinkansen bullet train kills man on tracks

Shinkansen bullet train kills man on tracks

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on June 14, 2018, shows a Nozomi shinkansen bullet train with cracks on its bonnet at JR Shin-Shimonoseki Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan. The train hit and killed a man on the tracks between Hakata and Kokura stations in Fukuoka Prefecture earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo