4 workers die after being hit by train north of Tokyo

Four workers died on Thursday after being hit by an express train at a station in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, police said. The four men were on the tracks to remove weeds when the accident took place at around 10.45am local time at Shin-Kanuma Station on the Tobu Nikko Line, according to the police and the trai

The men, in their 50s and 60s, had been performing weeding on railroad tracks.

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Four workers were unresponsive on Thursday after being hit by an express train at a station in Tochigi Prefecture north o