Suicide at Ikebukuro station causes rush hour delays
The outer loop of Tokyo’s Yamanote Line was stopped for over 4 hours yesterday morning because a young woman committed suicide by train:
According to police, the 22-year-old woman walked onto the outbound train tracks at the station at around 4:50 a.m. on Friday, where she was hit by an oncoming train.
The accident delayed inbound train services on the JR Yamanote Line for about 30 minutes, while outbound train services were resumed as late as about four hours and 20 minutes later, at 9:13 a.m. Around 105,000 rush hour commuters were affected.
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