Tokyo-bound express train hits and kills four workers at railway station in Japan

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

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

The train collided with the four men at Shin-Kanuma Station, north of Tokyo, authorities say.

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

The incident involving four workers took place at Shin-Kanuma Station north of Tokyo, the fire department said.

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