Police search Tobu Railway group company over fatal express train accident

UTSUNOMIYA (Kyodo) -- Police searched a Tobu Railway Co. group company Sunday on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death following an

The company was raided on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death in connection with the accident that killed four workers last week.

Express train hits and kills 4 workers at a railway station in Japan  AP News

Four railway workers spraying herbicide on tracks north of Tokyo were killed by an express train.

Railway officials said it was unclear why the workers did not leave the site when the train was approaching, or what the lookout people were doing.

TOKYO (AP) — Four people doing weed control work on a railway track in Japan died after being hit by an express train as it entered a station while they were still working there on Thursday, officials said.

Four people working on a railway track in Japan died after an express train hit them

Four people working on a railway track in Japan died after an express train hit them

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