OSAKA (Kyodo) Osaka firefighters said someone phoned in a fake report Thursday that a large number of people had been injured in a train crash at an Osaka subway station.
They confirmed there had not been an accident at Nagahoribashi Station. The fire department and police are trying to find the culprit.
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