Please let this be not true! Our news channel just broke a story regarding a horrendous train accident in Japan with 37 people dead. Anyone know anymore? My heart goes out to the families & colleagues of thos killed or injured.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...5E1702,00.html

Anyone here visiting or living in Osaka? Pls update us on the situation. Thank you.

I live in Okinawa and current reports are that there are 39 dead and 280 injured. Very sad.
Shelly

Just keeping those who wanted to know whats going on updated. Unfortunately, the numbers keep rising. They are reporting 49 dead and 343 injured.

Shelly

According to Asahi.com and Yahoo News, 50 dead so afr and more than 300 injured. Nothing is proved yet but they say it's possible the young driver (23 y.o.)of the train who has been driving since 11 months was speeding more than the limit of 70 km/h at the curve where the accident happened. He stopped the train at the previous station with 8 meters "over-run" which caused 1 minute 30 second-delay so it's possible he was trying to recover the delay.

... and it happened in Amagasaki-shi, Hyogo Prefecture, next to Osaka. Seems like there are 60 dead so far and still increasing unfortunately.

According to JapanTimes.com:
The accident occurred at around 9:20 a.m. near a railway crossing between Amagasaki and Tsukaguchi stations on JR West's Fukuchiyama Line.

:'(

A tragic accident which has killed 67 people so far and injured over 400, according to media reports in Australia, today April 26. Japan's worst train disaster in over 40 years. Those of us who are in Japan or have visited Japan or (like me) are about to visit can only feel great sorrow at these awful statistics.

It's very very sad. The pictures are awful. The numbers seem to keep rising. After experiencing the train system there just a few weeks ago, it seems unbelieveable. I read last night that they had not even found/identified the train operator yet.