FUKUI – Two single-carriage trains collided head-on after a suspected brake failure on a private railway line in the town of Matsuoka, Fukui Prefecture, Sunday afternoon, leaving one train operator dead and 23 people injured, local police said.
Some 30 people were aboard the two trains when they collided, they said.
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