Person Hit By Bullet Train

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    Somebody was hit by a Shinkansen near Shin-Yokhama station yesterday:

    A Bloomberg News article about yesterday’s incident:

    One person was killed after he was hit by a Central Japan Railway Co. bullet at a station near Tokyo, Yokohama city fire department spokesman Yoshifumi Isobe said by phone. Another person was injured in the incident.

    Trains restarted running after the incident at New-Yokohama and services are delayed, Taro Yoshikawa, a spokesman for JR Central, said. The company’s Web site said trains are delayed for up to one hour.

    Some networks even aired footage of the blood-smeared front of the train…

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